Antiwar.com Original Setting the Record Straight on Operation Cyclone Claims that the al-Qaeda founder worked for the CIA are demonstrably unfounded, but the facts behind the U.S.'s decade-long program to fund and arm the Afghan mujahideen are not much better.by Thomas Resnick Posted on Last month, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Twitter account posted a short article on the FIM-92 Stinger, a surface-to-air missile system that has become a metonym for American assistance to Afghan guerrillas between 1979 and 1989. Some users on the site were quick to flippantly reply with "and then what happened?", with one of the implications of course