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#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East
Lex Fridman Podcast
Gorbachev Can Empower 85
In the 1980s, bin Laden began to force for himself being spoken for a global project. And so he pushed the Afghan elites that Moscow was backing to basically say, listen, we're going to share power. A figure named Najibullah, who was a Soviet trained intelligence specialist sitting in Kabul agreed. He said, let's draw some of them into the government and basically have a kind of unity government That makes some space the opposition. The story goes on from at least 1987 until 1992 when Mujadeen comes to power.
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