Charlie Wilson, Former Congressman and Jihad-Backer, 76 2.64K John Cook 02/10/10 03:54PM Filed to: and now they're dead and now they're dead Politics Charlie Wilson Afghanistan Cia blowback unintended consequences Charlie Wilson's War spooks Gettypic Charlie Wilson's war is over. Wilson, the Texas congressman whose love of booze, cocaine, women, and secret CIA-run wars supporting Osama bin Laden's friends in Afghanistan was memorialized in a film starring Tom Hanks, has died of a heart attack.