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In the US Army’s West Point Combating Terrorism Center (CTC) 2008 report titled, " Bombers, Bank Accounts and Bleedout: al-Qa’ida’s Road In and Out of Iraq ," it stated unequivocally that (emphasis added):  During the first half of the 1980s the role of foreign fighters in Afghanistan was negligible and was largely  unâ€noticed by outside observers. The flow of volunteers from the Arab heartland countries was just a trickle in the early 1980s, though there were more significant links between the mujahidin and Central Asian Muslims—especially Tajiks, Uzbeks, and Kazakhs.