this via the last place we stopped:
"During the 1980's, the US and Saudi Arabia organized and financed 100,000 young Muslims from across the Islamic World to go fight in the Great Jihad in Afghanistan. I came to know well many of these 'mujihadin,' or holy warriors, both in Pakistan and Afghanistan. In 1986, Sheik Abdullah Azzam, the spiritual and political mentor of Osama bin Laden, told me, 'once we have driven the Soviet imperialists from Afghanistan, we will go and liberate Saudi Arabia, and then Palestine, from western imperialism.' "
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