In the twilight of the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, part of covert attempts to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.

The next time someone tries to tell you that there is no relationship between US anti-soviet efforts in the middle east and our present terrorism problem reference this story.

From U.S., the ABC's of Jihad (washingtonpost.com)