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Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect behind the attack on America, was once an American ally against the Russians in Afghanistan.
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This preceded his alliance with the Americans against the Russians in Afghanistan.
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He helped recruit Arabs to fight the Russians in Afghanistan.
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Some of these groups have ties to radical tribal leaders and intelligence officials who are veterans not only of the war against the Russians in Afghanistan but who also took part in what they deemed to be a jihad against the supposedly godless socialist south in the war for unity in 1994, which the north in effect won.
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Estonian military records show that 1, 652 local soldiers, both ethnic Estonians and Russians, served in Afghanistan.
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The committee lists 264 Soviet soldiers as still missing in Afghanistan, half of them Russians.
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The trial took an intriguing turn on October 29th, when Mr al-Motassadeq told the court that some of his alleged co-plotters had wanted to fight against the Russians in Chechnya, and that they had planned to travel to the breakaway republic after training in Afghanistan.
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Mr. Simpson argued that the West had turned its back on Afghanistan after the retreat of the Russians, if this is the case there can be no time in the recent past when the West can be accused of less interference in this nation.
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