On the sixth anniversary of the first infamous "Cablegate" by WikiLeaks, when it releases its first batch of sensitive US files, on November 28 2010, it has expanded its Public Library of US Diplomacy (PLUSD) with 531,525 new diplomatic cables from 1979.
In a statement to coincide with the release of the cables, known as "Carter Cables III", Mr Assange explained how events which unfolded in 1979, had begun a series of events that led to the rise of ISIS.
He said: "If any year could be said to be the "year zero" of our modern era, 1979 is it."
Mr Assange said a decision by the CIA, together with Saudi Arabia, to plough billions of dollars into arming the Mujahideen fighters in Afghanistan to tackle the Soviet Union, had led to the creation of terror group al-Qaeda.
This, in turn, he said led to the 9/11 terror strikes, the invasion of Afghanhistan and Iraq by the US, and the creation of ISIS.
Source: Express.co.uk
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @05:38PM
it's the american mentality to "plant the flag" and then leave?
it is also show in the "documentary" that after the russians returned home
that not much money was invested to rebuild Afghanistan. rebuilding might
have put a stop to further future ... errr ... "bush fires"?
this fact, more then any, show that it indeed was a proxy war.
i don't know much about the pre-russian afghanistan but some old
photos seem to suggest that it was rather open and a bit "glitzy", a place for
beautiful and enlightened people to hang out?
there still is the matter of drugs in afghanistan .. now, today, though.
in china it was opium for silver ... now i'ts opium for weapons (and some " finanCIAl education")?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 29 2016, @08:39PM
photos seem to suggest that it was rather open and a bit "glitzy", a place for
beautiful and enlightened people to hang out?
Kabul was, mainly because they were trying to do an Attaturk and drag the country into modernism.
The rural parts, not so much.