These Human Rights Business operated on (almost) business lines. In addition, they used public goodwill as well funds for a private enterprise.

Flexible and self-serving definitions of 'terrorism' were used by states in the occidental west.

The seeds of Good Terrorism and Bad Terrorism are sowed by the political class in occidental west.
But countries like India, Indonesia and.....with a large muslim population refused to join the western club and did not go to war with USSR.
As a consequence these outcasts were severally punished  for not obeying the Grand Ring Master.
Good Terrorists became Bad Terrorists only after Sep. 11, 2001.
(ref..........Punishments....... lasted..............)
(Home Grown Jihadis_JUNDULLAH_in UK & USA_since 1980s)   (ref………)

(USSR dragged into a conflict......)
(Opium production peaked........)
Illegally generated and unaccounted for funds were necessary to finance this mini-war and concurrent ongoing covert war.