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It could be said distantly that the US CIA assisted in the training of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, but this is overly simplistic.

From 1979 to 1989, when Afghanistan was the site of war between a Soviet Communist puppet regime and the Jihadist Mujahedin rebels, the US CIA supported and trained the Mujahedin as a way to overcome the Soviets. However, when the Soviets withdrew in 1989, the US ceased all support to the Mujahedin. In the post-victory environment, the Mujahedin consolidated and used their remaining US-given monetary resources and the training that they had received to create the al-Qaeda Organization in Afghanistan. Since the founding of al-Qaeda to the present (excluding errors of judgment in Syria in 2012), the US has not provided funds to the organization nor has it provided any new training materials.

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