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Pietro_Mercurios said:Were links maintained with Islamic extremists, specially trained in Afghanistan, after the collapse of the USSR?
Links were maintained with former Mujahadeen. However, is there any evidence that this included Bin Laden (bearing in mind that he left the country in 1989 and only returned in 1996)? Also, maintaining links with and urging more support for an opponent of the Taliban and Bin Laden (Ahmed Shah Massoud) would suggest that the links didn't extend as far as the Al-Qaeda leader.