Fifty2One
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You missed this bit in Wikipedia about the British SAS...
Some soldiers (officially former members of the Regiment) fought in the Vietnam War training US Combat Tracker Teams 1965-1971 and helped the Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. There was also official SAS training of Mujahideen in Scotland in the 1980s, with particular emphasis on shooting down Soviet-made helicopters with American-made FIM-92 Stinger, man-portable surface-to-air missiles.
So that is a GREAT plan - teach then how to fight, show them around your country, piss them off, go to war with them and then give them money.
Some soldiers (officially former members of the Regiment) fought in the Vietnam War training US Combat Tracker Teams 1965-1971 and helped the Mujahideen in Afghanistan during the Soviet occupation. There was also official SAS training of Mujahideen in Scotland in the 1980s, with particular emphasis on shooting down Soviet-made helicopters with American-made FIM-92 Stinger, man-portable surface-to-air missiles.
So that is a GREAT plan - teach then how to fight, show them around your country, piss them off, go to war with them and then give them money.
Actually it was the Mujahideen financed by the CIA, and also by Saudi Arabia, Pakistan under Zia-ul-Haq, Iran, the People's Republic of China and several Western European countries. Pakistan's secret service, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was used as an intermediary for most of these activities to disguise the sources of support for the resistance.