Afghan+War+-+Porter

This war came to an end by the Soviet withdrawal but the afghn civil war​ continues.
 * [[image:Afghan_War_31359.gif align="right"]]​Who the Soviet Union and Afghanistan
 * What a War
 * When 27 December 1979 – 15 February 1989
 * Where Afghanistan
 * Why The Afghan poeple killed the dictator who had been put in power by the Soviets. The Soviets put in another guy and they killed him too. Finally the Soviet Army invaded. After about 10 years, they left in disgust and disgrace, having been unable to control the population. In the power vacuum that ensued, the Taliban came into power. They were not well received either, but at least they were Afghans, not Russians. The Taliban invited our old friend Osama Bin Laden in to Afghanistan after he'd been kicked out of nearly every other hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. He had been one of the mujahadeen that the US had secretly trained and outfitted during the Soviet invasion.

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