While Pakistan, the United States of America, Saudi Arabia, Iran and the USSR were interested in Afghanistan in the 1980s, they might have been unaware that they were starting a war that would involve almost half of the world two decades later. The war would also expand the scene from battlefields and war hit countries into streets in major cities, the now familiar terrorists. Wars would no longer just be on the TV, but in metal detectors in the streets. How did terrorism travel from the streets of Kabul to those of Nairobi, New York and Khartoum?

The affordability of war is partly attributed to the fall of the iron curtain, the Soviet Republic. The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), with a threat of going to war with the United States during the cold war era, stockpiled lots of weapons. When the USSR collapsed and broke into individual countries, many of the stockpiles were left in the hands of nations struggling to establish themselves. Corruption in such nations meant that this huge stockpiles were available for sale in the International market at throwaway prices.