The united states utilized the intelligence services of egypt, saudi arabia and pakistan to create, train, finance and arm an international network of islamic militants in afghanistan. The chinese regarded the soviet union as a totally appalling power that had betrayed them in their time of need. And all these groups that were trained and fought in aranistan, even before the taleban had taken part, theyadwere gone back to their own countries and been treated like total dirt. That's how they felt they'd been treated. They said, we won the war, not the americans. Total fantasy, total and complete phantasy. We've defeated