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1982: Pakistani ISI Begins Recruiting Arab Fundamentalists to Fight in Afghanistan

Pakistan’s intelligence agency, the ISI, begins its program to recruit Arab fundamentalists fighters from across the Arab world to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan. [Rashid, 2001, pp. 129]