21.   The air raids, in turn, accounted for most of the Taliban and al-Qaida casualties and enabled the Afghan resistance to move forward.

22.   The CIA also deployed its Special Operations Group, a small unit that worked with the Afghan resistance and conducted operations in both northern and southern Afghanistan.

23.   The CIA-backed Afghan resistance included factions that now form the military of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan.

24.   The Soviet army had invaded, and the West supported the Afghan resistance with the latest tools of battle.

25.   Tomsen is among the last of foreign officials to meet with the leader of the Afghan resistance to the Taliban.

26.   Using Pakistan as a pipeline, United States and other nations then financed the Afghan resistance.

27.   With their attacks, the Afghan resistance forced the Taliban and al-Qaida to take up defensive positions, which were highly vulnerable to airstrikes.

28.   Afghan resistance leaders visited Ronald Reagan at the White House, and the former U.S. president embraced them as freedom fighters.

29.   Also, young Muslim militants descended on western Pakistan to join Afghan resistance groups battling the communist Afghan government.

30.   During Afghan resistance against the former Soviet Union, Hekmatyar was the key recipient of U.S. weapons and financial aid.