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Many Americans doubt the desirability of his country's surrender Libyan arms to the rebels, despite a history of similar operations in other countries had undesirable effects. The White House has not confirmed the information published on the supply of weapons to opposition leader Muammar Gaddafi on Thursday, said the U.S. newspaper New York Times, Defense Secretary Robert Gates gave statements indicating that Congress did not believe his country was planning to deliver arms to the rebels, but suggested that Washington would not oppose other countries do so. Hours before, the same newspaper, an unnamed official had said that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was worried about possible links between some of the Libyan rebels and al Qaeda. And in the last three decades, several incidents in which U.S. supplied arms to rebel movements bitter lessons left the White House. The cases date back to evoke worst memories of the eighties of last century and is aimed at supporting the anticommunist opposition movements in Nicaragua and Afghanistan. United States helped spawn his enemy in Afghanistan in the eighties. The supply of arms to the Islamists who fought against invading Soviet troops at the time was seen as a masterstroke of strategy of the Cold War between Washington and Moscow. But he had the unexpected effect of helping to create a radical anti-American militia, linked to Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda. It all began when the Soviet Union invaded country in 1979 to prevent the fall of an allied government threatened by Islamic opposition Mujahideen. The intervention led to a ten-year war that caused more than a million dead and five million refugees. U.S. presidents Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan approved the shipment of arms and money to the mujahideen. Reagan called them "freedom fighters" ("freedom fighters"). In late 1980, pressed by the revolt of the mujahideen, the Moscow government was forced to change strategy in Afghanistan and to concede that many see as crucial to understanding the outcome of the Cold War for Western nations. The world lost interest in Afghanistan when Soviet forces withdrew in 1989 but continued civil war and exalted in power the Taliban, originally a group of theologians with an extreme version of Islam, which gave shelter to bin Laden. Some of the rebels who had received U.S. aid to confront the Soviet Union, now joined Islamist extremism against Washington. On September 11, 2001, more than two decades after the start of support for the mujahideen, the United States suffered in their own territory to attack by a group that integrated some of whom were initially allies in Afghanistan. Nicaraguan Contras Support from Washington to the Nicaraguan Contras during the eighties, which cost the then president Ronald Reagan the biggest scandal of his presidency. Sandinista revolution in 1979 overthrew the then president Anastasio Somoza, a member of a family that had decades in power. The left-wing Sandinistas led the U.S. hostility, which accused them of closeness with the Soviet Union and Cuba. United States armed guerrillas since 1982 the Contras, who rebelled against the Sandinista government. Faced with a ban on U.S. Congress to allocate funds to the rebels in Nicaragua, in 1986, the Reagan administration secretly and illegally, transferred to the Contras money from the sale of arms to Iran, something also prohibited by an embargo. When the press revealed this operation, the congressional opposition to the funding of the Contras and Washington increased its aid stopped. However, at the end of the decade, the Sandinistas were defeated in the presidential election. According to Reagan's allies, Washington succeeded in its objective indirectly curb the spread of socialism in Central America. However, as a result of its intervention in Nicaragua, the U.S. image worldwide, particularly in Latin America, was seriously affected. And his administration was marred by a serious scandal that, for many, a decisive overshadowed the rest of the Reagan presidency.
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