"The Jordanian and American intelligence services offered me millions of dollars to work with them and spy on mujahadeen here,".

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, I came to the mujahadeen and I told them everything and we arranged together this attack to make the Americans understand that the belief of Allah, that eman which we hold, the fatwah that we strive for cannot be exchanged for all the wealth in the world."

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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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