Maktab al-Khidamat
1984–1989 organization fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan
Maktab al-Khidamat
The Maktab al-Khidamat, or Maktab Khadamāt al-Mujāhidīn al-'Arab (Arabic: مكتب الخدمات or مكتب خدمات المجاهدين العرب), also known as MaK and the Afghan Services Bureau, was an organization founded in 1984 by Abdullah Yusuf Azzam and Osama bin Laden, to support the Afghan mujahideen in the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989). The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979. MaK recruited foreign mujahideen into the Afghan jihad against the Soviets and their ally, the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. MaK trained the foreigners and commanded them in a large jihadist force. MaK was funded by bin Laden's inheritance from his wealthy family, who ran the Saudi Binladin Group construction company. A popular misconception is that the U.S. directly trained bin Laden's mujahideen fighters; however, bin Laden had ties to Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency during Operation Cyclone (1979–1992), a CIA initiative to funnel money and arms for the Afghan mujahideen through ISI acting as the intermediary...
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