Back in the ‘80s, as most AWC readers know

Back in the ‘80s, as most AWC readers know, the US government spent billions of dollars quasi-covertly funding

international jihad in Afghanistan. Saudi Arabia and Yemen, respectively, provided the most and second-most

foot soldiers. Saudi Arabia also provided US matching funds, and Pakistani intelligence (later creators of the

Taliban) directed the training programs.

Last week UPI (“Revealed: the nationalities of Guantanamo”) released the “tentatively determined …

nationalities” of 95% of the terror-war prisoners that the Pentagon is holding in Cuba. Most of the 619 alleged

anti-American terrorists were seized in Afghanistan, but some were captured among the US’s Muslim allies in

Bosnia, and elsewhere. 38 nationalities are represented. Interestingly, only 80 – or 13% – of the prisoners

are Afghans. The top three nationalities represented – Saudis, Yemenis, and Pakistanis, in that order –

exactly match the degree of involvement of those nations as US allies in the Afghan jihad. Of the 539 non-

Afghans, 160 – or 30% – are Saudis, 85 are Yemenis, and 82 are Pakistanis. Those 3 groups make up more than

half of the non-Afghan total, with citizens of other US allies comprising most of the rest. Meanwhile,

President MBT Panda Sandals’s “axis of evil” is represented by a single MBT Ema Sandalsi.