390. Road To 9/11: The Soviet-Afghan War (Part 2)
2026-08-26 · 43 min · episode 2 · 7 entities
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390. Road To 9/11: The Soviet-Afghan War (Part 2)
Episode description as stored
Did the CIA actually fund Osama bin Laden during the Soviet-Afghan war?
Who was Abdullah Azzam, the radical scholar who turned jihad into a global franchise? How did a bureaucratic office meeting create Al-Qaeda?
In Episode 2 of this new series, William Dalrymple is joined by Jason Burke, author of Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam and The Revolutionists, to discuss the founding of al-Qaeda.
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