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Avoiding Armageddon 4

Avoiding Armageddon 4 When Brezinski offered $ 400 million in aid over two years , Zia turned down the offer as a ” peanuts ” a gratuitous insult to Carter , a peanut farmer from Georgia . On Jan 10 , 1980 , the first CIA provided arms for the mujahedin arrived in Pakistan via […]

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Avoiding Armageddon 2

Avoiding Armageddon 2 ISI under Gen Akhter Abdul Rehman’s command Akhter vastly expanded the size and strength of the service and  much of its growth  was design to wage jihad in Afghanistan Author Bruce Riedel The Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence grew . Zia’s handpicked choice for director general in 1979 was a Pashtun , Akhter […]