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^ that's true as well, there was other groups there and yea you're right, the Taliban was the majority. They got training from some of the best American operatives that the US had to offer, received millions upon millions of dollars from the CIA, not to mention all the weapons they got as well.

Once the CIA gave them heat seeking rocket launchers though, it was game over for the Soviets, the launchers pretty much won them the war as it took away air superiority the Soviets had, dozens of Soviet choppers were getting blown down every day.

Now what they did is they took all that training they received from the CIA and are applying it against everything and everyone in their region.