Are these the same "freedom fighters" (Mujahadeen) for which Osama bin Ladin was also allegedly working?
OBL was late to the party.
Many of those "Freedom Fighters" were part of the Northern Alliance, beside whom we fought to push the Taliban out of power, where they remain. They aren't shooting women in the head in the soccer stadium these days. Many of them are curiously missing various body parts, which they don't really miss all that much, being dead.
OBL supported the "fundamentalist" types who spent more time fighting the others than the Soviets.