Maktab al-Khidamat
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| Center of Gravity | Peshawar, Pakistan | ||
 | Scope | International | |
| Area of Operation | United States, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan | ||
 | State Sponsor | Pakistan | |
| Goal | Enlist Arabs and other Muslims to oppose Soviet invasion of Afghanistan4 | ||
| Leader | Abdullah Azzam | ||
| Alias(es) | MAK1, Afghan Services Office2, Mektab al-Khidmat3, Mekhtab al Khidemat | |
| Key members | Osama bin Laden | ||
| Formed | 1984 | ||
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| Narrative and Notes | |||
| Reliable | MAK served to funnel volunteers and money to Arabs and other foreign Muslims fighting alongside the Afghans against the Soviet invasion in the 1980s. Most of the organization was rolled into al-Qaeda when the Soviets withdrew, and it is considered defunct. | |
| Possible | It received considerable support from Paistan's intelligence service.4 | |
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| 1U.S. government shorthand. | |||
| 2Translation. | |||
| 3Alternate transliteration. | |||
| 4Gunaratna, Rohan. 'Inside al-Qaeda: Global Network of Terror.' New York: Columbia University Press, 2002. | |||
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