“Then who supplied the AQs with those Stinger missiles that were used against the Soviets?”
Sigh... there were multiple groups involved in fighting the Soviets. They were not all collectively “the AQs”.
We provided the Afghans with stingers. Those were native Afghans fighters, groups that later morphed into local warlords like the Northern Alliance. The group that eventually morphed into Al Qaeda were not Afghans. They were foreigners with “jihad fever”, just like the ones who later flocked to Bosnia, or nowadays to Syria. The CIA did not work with the foreigners, or fund them, or provide them with weapons.
That is a common misconception fueled by leftist propagandists like Michael Moore.
It was pretty common knowledge back in the ‘80s that it was the CIA supplying the Stinger missiles.