Word: afghanistan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...been an explosion without him.'' At the first round of trials for the plotters last year, Yousef's name came up again and again. But he was nowhere to be found. Some news accounts speculated that he had fled to Egypt; others placed him in Iraq or Iran or Afghanistan. Now, with a second round of trials under way in New York City, information from the intelligence agencies that tracked him around the world--including the CIA, the FBI and the Drug Enforcement Administration--reveals that Yousef's travels took in huge swaths of the planet. His attack...
...America: ``He is not high maintenance. The World Trade Center bomb cost less than $3,000, so the monies involved in carrying out these kinds of plots are not extensive.'' He adds that a lot of money was raised during the anti-Soviet jihad--or holy war-- movement in Afghanistan, and these efforts, which are believed to be still active in Peshawar, have evolved into organizations with quite a bit of money. Money floats freely among wealthy Islamic fundamentalist patrons. ``This guy may have had a private network of backers with dollars,'' says a U.S. intelligence source. For today...
...come under fire often during the two years I served in Afghanistan as a lieutenant in the 103rd Airborne Division, commanded by General Pavel Grachev, who is now our Defense Minister. But the harrowing situation on the streets of Grozny was like nothing I had ever experienced in Afghanistan. The commander of my vehicle had no map of the city and no idea where he was going. He was not even able to make radio contact with the other two APCs and admitted that he had simply been thrown together with soldiers and vehicles from different units and told...
When I was discharged from military service in 1992, I knew the Russian army was a faded copy of the Soviet army, but somehow I hoped I was wrong. Despite the defeat in Afghanistan, we had gained considerable fighting experience during nine years of war. By the time the campaign ended in 1989, there was a sufficient number of officers--perhaps as many as 1 in 5--who had served in Afghanistan and learned how to fight a guerrilla war. Surely these veterans, the so-called Afghantsy, many now commanding the Grozny operation, had not forgotten everything they learned? After...
...Thaddeus Hutyra Antwerp, Belgium It's too late for yeltsin to learn any lessons. Before invading Chechnya, he should have remembered the Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and the fact that it took czarist armies nearly 50 years to subdue the Chechens in the mid-19th century. Yeltsin should seek a peaceful and humanitarian solution in Chechnya now. The Soviet invasion and defeat in Afghanistan led to the fall of the Soviet empire. Similarly, the invasion of Chechnya could eventually unravel the Russian Federation. Furthermore, the events in Chechnya raise serious questions about peace and stability in central and south Asia...