What Are America's Worst Enemies During The Cold War

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In the 1980’s the US Government trained, armed, funded and supported Osama Bin Laden and his followers in Afghanistan during the cold war. With a huge investment of 3 billion dollars, the CIA effectively created and nurtured Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda network using US taxpayer money. US citizens would be horrified that one of America’s worst enemies had been trained and supported by their own Government In 1982, Saddam Hussein was given money and arms by the US Government. The US Government also knew he was using chemical weaponry such as mustard gas that they kept quiet. The US wanted to build up Iraq as a military counterweight to Iran and wanted Iraq as an ally. This is another example of the US using underground techniques to get the result