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Maktab al-Khadamat

The Maktab al-Khadamāt, also Maktab Khadamāt al-Mujāhidīn al-Arab (Arabic: مكتب الخدمات or مكتب خدمات المجاهدين العرب, MAK), also known as the Afghan Bureau, is reliably thought to have been founded by Dr. Abdullah Yusuf Azzam, a teacher of Osama bin Laden, and an influential member of the Muslim Brotherhood. MAK was used as a conduit for funneling funds from several Western sources to finance the jihad in Afghanistan. MAK also actively recruited fighters from around the world.

MAK also liaised closely with the then Pakistani government, particularly the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).


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