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Anonymous ID: a0428f Dec. 21, 2022, 4:11 p.m. No.17994411   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4426 >>4428 >>4469 >>4576 >>4767 >>4864

The base at Tora Bora was developed as a CIA-financed complex built for the Mujahideen following the 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and has been described by the western media as an "impregnable cave fortress" housing 2,000 men complete with a hospital, a hydroelectric power plant, offices, a hotel, arms and ammunition stores, roads large enough to drive a tank into, and sophisticated tunnel, and ventilation systems.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/11/magazine/lost-at-tora-bora.html

 

The first time bin Laden had seen the Tora Bora caves, he had been a young mujahedeen fighter and a recent university graduate with a degree in civil engineering. It had been some 20 years before, during Washington's first Afghan war, the decade-long, C.I.A.-financed jihad of the 1980's against the Soviet occupation. Rising to more than 13,000 feet, 35 miles southwest of the provincial capital of Jalalabad, Tora Bora was a fortress of snow-capped peaks, steep valleys and fortified caves. Its miles of tunnels, bunkers and base camps, dug deeply into the steep rock walls, had been part of a C.I.A.-financed complex built for the mujahedeen. Bin Laden had flown in dozens of bulldozers and other pieces of heavy equipment from his father's construction empire, the Saudi Binladin Group, one of the most prosperous construction companies in Saudi Arabia and throughout the Persian Gulf. According to one frequently told story, bin Laden would drive one of the bulldozers himself across the precipitous mountain peaks, constructing defensive tunnels and storage depots.

Anonymous ID: a0428f Dec. 21, 2022, 4:15 p.m. No.17994426   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4576 >>4767 >>4864

>>17994411

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Cyclone

Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) program to arm and finance the Afghan mujahideen in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1992, prior to and during the military intervention by the USSR in support of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. The mujahideen were also supported by Britain's MI6, who conducted their own separate covert actions. The program leaned heavily towards supporting militant Islamic groups, including groups with jihadist ties, that were favored by the regime of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq in neighboring Pakistan, rather than other, less ideological Afghan resistance groups that had also been fighting the Soviet-oriented Democratic Republic of Afghanistan administration since before the Soviet intervention.

Anonymous ID: a0428f Dec. 21, 2022, 4:19 p.m. No.17994441   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4445 >>4452 >>4530 >>4767 >>4864

Special Operations Forces Laser Marker (SOFLAM)

 

US Special Operations Forces in Afghanistan used the AN/PEQ-1A SOFLAM to direct exact delivery of ordnance. The SOFLAM was an important tool in the battle for Tora Bora where a CIA‑US Special Forces team directed 72 hours of unrelenting air strikes—sometimes dangerously close to their own position—killing hundreds of al‑Qa’ida terrorists.

Anonymous ID: a0428f Dec. 21, 2022, 4:19 p.m. No.17994445   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4530 >>4767 >>4864

>>17994441

The Russian-made Mi-17 helicopter was CIA’s workhorse for transporting personnel, equipment, and supplies into, across, and out of Afghanistan. The first CIA team entered Afghanistan on 26 September 2001. Two days later, the CIA flight mechanic repainted the Mi-17 with a new tail number – 91101.

Anonymous ID: a0428f Dec. 21, 2022, 4:56 p.m. No.17994644   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4709

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"We wanted to salute a true American hero, and what better way to do it than through dedicating a burger in his name," said Burger King spokesman Arthur Shankman. "And we called it the Sullen Burger, because his name is Sullenberger, which sounds the same."