Charlie Wilson killed by the Mujahideen

Say Charlie Wilson while visiting Afghanistan or Pakistan is killed by either local or Foreign Mujahideen for whatever reason. Say they view him as American crusader or kill him due to American support for Israel or whatever

What would be the impact on American support for the Mujahideen

What would be the political fallout
 
What? The Mujahideen were American allies that welcomed any western support against the Soviets
A lot of Mujahideen held anti-American views especially the Afghan Arabs which later form the basis for Al-Qaeda and other Terrorist groups. Also the Mujahideen were not a united group so I didn't consider out of the realm of possible for an over-zealous group of likely foreign origin to kill him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden#Opposing_view
 
A lot of Mujahideen held anti-American views especially the Afghan Arabs which later form the basis for Al-Qaeda and other Terrorist groups. Also the Mujahideen were not a united group so I didn't consider out of the realm of possible for an over-zealous group of likely foreign origin to kill him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden#Opposing_view
But they all agreed that the Soviets were the biggest threat at the moment. Even the most anti American groups were more than happy to take American money and arms and weren’t going to mess that up
 
A lot of Mujahideen held anti-American views especially the Afghan Arabs which later form the basis for Al-Qaeda and other Terrorist groups. Also the Mujahideen were not a united group so I didn't consider out of the realm of possible for an over-zealous group of likely foreign origin to kill him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allegations_of_CIA_assistance_to_Osama_bin_Laden#Opposing_view
Weren't the Afghan Arabs nothing more than a dozen guys? The myth surrounding Bin Laden and his cohorts is just that.
They exhibited none of the bravery of the Mujahideen and spent their time hiding or back home in comfort during extended breaks.
 
Weren't the Afghan Arabs nothing more than a dozen guys? The myth surrounding Bin Laden and his cohorts is just that.
numbered are 20,000 to 35,000
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afghan_Arabs

They exhibited none of the bravery of the Mujahideen and spent their time hiding or back home in comfort during extended breaks.
How does that translate into not killing a congressman among the 20,000 to 35,000 or just bribing some locals to do it.
 
What? The Mujahideen were American allies that welcomed any western support against the Soviets
The Mujahideen consisted of many competing different factions, including those whose primary loyalty was to Islamic fundamentalism / global jihad, their ethnicity, and in a some cases, completely to themselves. No all factional leaders were known for objective thinking. Motivations for killing Charlie Wilson could be:

- He is an infidel who channels support primarily to relatively secular groups as a priority. Strengthened secular groups impacts our main objective of securing followers for global jihad. Afghanistan is only the beginning... .

- Yikes, Charlie Wison's favorite group is comprised of ethnic group 'e' fighters. They only spend about half their time fighting the Soviets- and the other half of their time is spent attacking us... .

- We are moderate and also tired of endless war and want to reach an accord of some sort with the Soviets in our area. Our willingness to reach an accord has subjected us to attacks by other Wilson backed factions.... .

- Sure we fight the Soviets- at least sometimes. We fight somebody almost all of the time. We also rigorously practice our traditional and time honored business of....large scale poppy production. Wilson's activities are bad for our business.... .
 
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Weren't the Afghan Arabs nothing more than a dozen guys?
numbered are 20,000 to 35,000

The truth is some where in between those figures.

25,000 (+) included any Arab who drifted into Pakistan / Afghanistan during the conflict. A substantial number of 'jihad tourists' never left base camps in Pakistan. Some never even left their Pakistani hotels. They then returned home as a "jihad veterans" with improved prospects for marriage, employment, and bragging rights at the local pool hall. Others who remained in Pakistan went solely as laborers, skilled construction workers, medical staff. teachers etc. (wealthy Arab sponsors preferred hiring Arabs in support roles).

Ben Ladin spent nearly all of his time in base camps, but led three forays into Afghanistan. Each foray consisted of between about 75-200 Arab fighters. Two forays fizzled out with Afghan groups actually sending the Ben Ladin's group packing on one occasion because they were so incompetent they endangered other fighters. The third and final foray ended in a fighting withdrawl that Al Queda propagandists spun into a victory. In Al Queda lore, Ben Ladin's AK carbine was taken as a trophy during the retreat.

All that aside, Ben Ladin was not the only Arab leading jihad forays into Afghanistan. For example, a rival Arab jihadi leader was killed by a mysterious and remarkably well placed car bomb after refusing to acknowledge Ben Ladin as the Supreme Jihader. Lets say that in addition to Ben Ladin, four other Arab Jihadis led relatively large forays into Afghanistan. That would yield say, 1,200 or so actual Arab combatants.
 
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Binecessity

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What? The Mujahideen were American allies that welcomed any western support against the Soviets

They also flirted with selling opium to fund the war effort, alot of them were worse than contras. Him focusing on that could make the scenario work.

Weren't the Afghan Arabs nothing more than a dozen guys? The myth surrounding Bin Laden and his cohorts is just that.
They exhibited none of the bravery of the Mujahideen and spent their time hiding or back home in comfort during extended breaks.
Mujahideen still forced ultra conservatism onto people, it was just slightly more palpable muslim brotherhood levels of "tolerant".
 
Intelligence Bureau kills all of the responsible fighters in Pakistan.
ISI kills those overseas. CIA takes care of those outside their region.

Why the hell would they kill their biggest supporter?
“He in an infidel”? Seriously? Some of you guys need to venture out of books and actually meet some Arabs and Muslims.
 

Khanzeer

Banned
Afghan bandits aka mujahedeen could kill him accidentally ofcourse , or KHAD agents could dressed up as mujahedeen
 
Afghan bandits aka mujahedeen could kill him accidentally ofcourse , or KHAD agents could dressed up as mujahedeen
A sitting US Congressman gets killed. By a Soviet client states intelligence agency. During the Reagan era.
Shitstorm doesn’t quite cover what the CIA would do to Afghan diplomatic and intelligence assets world wide.
 
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