JUST 361 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Al-Qaeda, Pipeline Transport, Jihadism
Document Summary
Union invasion of afghanistan: due to the cold war, us were ready to support any form of islam against the soviet. Union: jihad in afghanistan, the us helped saudi arabia to develop a funding mechanism and underground arms network to supply the mujahedeen in afghanistan, alliance with the pakistani interservice intelligence agency (isi), providing weapons and supplies. Isi began training and equipping the mujahedeen: after the soviets left in 1989, mujahedeen groups continued to fight over control of. Afghanistan: al qaeda (the base) was one of the many paramilitary groups that were fighting in. Afghanistan, created by osama bin laden during the last stages of the war: al qaeda was composed of islamic students who wanted to bring order to. Afghanistan through forced imposition of islamic law: bin laden was the son of a wealthy saudi arabian construction executive who worked with the saudi government, after the 1991 us invasion of iraq, bin laden turned against western nations.
