User blog comment:Callofduty4/CoDWiki news - September 11th '11/@comment-189.183.44.208-20110911013115/@comment-76.91.149.14-20110911215918

It is true. I was taught that in my history class last year. It occurred during the Cold War, and we helped them because of the containment policy, in which the US said they would help to stop the spread of communism. The Mujaheddin were warlords during that time that opposed communism because it would take their power away. The US saw this and decided to supply them with weapons and training. the Mujaheddin won the war with our support and established their own government which later became the Taliban. So, unintentionally the US helped train our enemies.