Israel on War Alert - Operation Swords of Iron enacted, page-3625

I guess that's why Biden has called it their 9/11 moment cos Osama Bin Laden was supported by the US in Afghanistan after Afghanistan's invasion by Russia.

"The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, 1978–1980. At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country."


"The Brezhnev Doctrine severely limited reforms by Soviet-bloc countries in the ensuing decades. In addition, it was used to justify the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The Soviets sought to prop up the country's communist government in its battle with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas."