America was not content to sit idly by and allow matters in Afghanistan to run their course. Rather, they began secretly smuggling valuable, destructive weapons to the group fighting the Soviets: the Mujahedeen. The irony is that the Mujahedeen would in the future provide the historical roots of the Taliban and Al Qaeda; one of their leaders was Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on the U.S.
