Team Alpha, Part 1/2: The Tip of the Spear | CIA
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Dostum - A Warlord From Central Casting
Abdul Rashid Dostum was an ethnic Uzbek warlord, a fearsome military commander with political aspirations for the Uzbek people in northern Afghanistan. He fought alongside the Soviets against the Mujahideen who were backed by the CIA in the 1980s. And so he was viewed by the State Department and the US government more broadly as somebody not to be trusted. That was the view before 9-11, but of course, as with so many things, it changed completely on that day.
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