{"id":1031,"date":"2003-06-14T16:19:32","date_gmt":"2003-06-14T20:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2003\/06\/14\/\/"},"modified":"2003-06-14T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2003-06-14T20:19:32","slug":"1031","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2003\/06\/1031\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hnn.us\/articles\/1491.html\" rel=\"external\">The Largest Covert Operation in CIA History<\/a><\/strong><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/cia.jpg\" alt=\"CIA\" class=\"oldblogthumb\" \/>According to the author of the newly released <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/tg\/detail\/-\/0871138549\/103-8010329-4489431?v=glance\" rel=\"external\"><strong><em>Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War<\/em><\/strong><\/a> (known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.co.uk\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1843540851\/qid=1118601065\/sr=1-2\/ref=sr_1_10_2\/202-0069478-5800641\" rel=\"external\"><em><strong>My Enemy&#8217;s Enemy<\/strong><\/em><\/a> in the UK), the exception to CIA incompetence was the arming between 1979 and 1988 of thousands of Afghan moujahedeen (&#8220;freedom fighters&#8221;). The agency flooded Afghanistan with an astonishing array of extremely dangerous weapons and &#8220;unapologetically mov[ed] to equip and train cadres of high tech holy warriors in the art of waging a war of urban terror against a modern superpower,&#8221; in this case, the USSR.<br \/><em>(Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chapel-perilous.net\" rel=\"external\">Chapel Perilous<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Largest Covert Operation in CIA HistoryAccording to the author of the newly released Charlie Wilson&#8217;s War (known as My Enemy&#8217;s Enemy in the UK), the exception to CIA incompetence was the arming between 1979 and 1988 of thousands of Afghan moujahedeen (&#8220;freedom fighters&#8221;). The agency flooded Afghanistan with an astonishing array of extremely dangerous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}