[WIGGY]

I recently read a book by a former SAS member you may want to check out. The author (Tom Carew) talks about British Ops. during the Russo-Afgani conflict. There are is a brief mention of U.S. involvement in teaching guerrilla tactics and unothodox methods. I'm not sure of the validity of the piece but you may want to read JIHAD The Secret War in Afganistan.

[DTA]

see this:

"By 1984 he was running a front organization called Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), which funneled money, arms and fighters into the Afghan war. MAK was nurtured by Pakistan's state security services and the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI), the United States Central Intelligence Agency's primary mechanism for the covert conduct of war against the Soviet occupation. By 1988, Bin Laden had split from the MAK and established a new guerilla group, dubbed al-Qaida, which included many of the more militant MAK members he had met in Afghanistan.

Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK),is an interesting story

For further reading, search under "Senator Orrin Hatch".