> Stingers were given in '86. Relatively late in the war. The vast bulk
> given to Hekmatar (see this from Alfred McCoy
http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/CIA/CIAdrug_fallout.html who cites Steve
Coll from the Washington Post, author of, "Ghost Wars, " on the CIA and the
Afghan mujahdeen) rather than to Massoud. On Massoud, who was killed two
days before 9-11 see Jon Lee Anderson of the New Yorker, "The Lion's Grave:
Dispatches from Afghanistan."
Anderson's first book on the World Anti-Communist League is a great read btw.
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