The main Saudi contribution to the US's victory in the Cold War was its willingness to finance the mujahadeen in Afghanistan who fought the Soviet invasion.

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Babrak Babarkhale, a former journalist and Mujahadeen fighter in the war to end Soviet occupation in the 1980s, said he planned to vote for Abdullah because he was fed up with corruption.

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Schmidt also asked Al-Fadl if he had overstated his acquaintance with convicted World Trade Center bomber Ramzi Yousef, telling investigators he had "trained" with him in Afghan mujahadeen camps in the 1980s.

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He also noted that at least one of the men "may have been in the Afghan Mujahadeen" during the 1980s war in Afghanistan and that, at the very least, both men called themselves Mujahadeen.

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