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Early in the war, Andris' father disappeared to the Russian front with a Jewish forced-labor battalion. When he returned, half starved, at the end of the war, he described how Hungarian guards, on a bitterly cold Russian night, forced the Jewish battalion to strip naked and climb trees, "and the guards sprayed them with water and watched and laughed as one after another fell out of the trees frozen to death...
Pittard, who served as a military aide to President Clinton, discussed his wide range of experiences, including leading a battalion and traveling to different countries on Air Force...
Rabbani's 300-man assault battalion is just one of the Northern Alliance units moving toward the Shomali Plain, north of Kabul, as opposition troops mass in preparation for a final offensive against the Taliban. In Jabal-us-Seraj, an opposition-held town 47 miles north of the capital, the narrow streets are clogged with irregulars arriving from Northern Alliance garrisons across the northeast. Distant explosions light the night sky to the south of Jabal-us-Seraj--U.S. air strikes that have bolstered the confidence of these men. "Since the beginning of the American attacks, there have been no Taliban...
...Rabbani's 300-man assault battalion is just one of the Northern Alliance units moving toward the Shomali Plain, north of Kabul, as opposition troops mass in preparation for a final offensive against the Taliban. In Jabal-us-Seraj, an opposition-held town 47 miles north of the capital, the narrow streets are clogged with irregulars arriving from Northern Alliance garrisons across the northeast. Distant explosions light the night sky to the south of Jabal-us-Seraj?U.S. air strikes that have bolstered the confidence of these men. "Since the beginning of the American attacks, there have been no Taliban...
...wealthy by Pakistani standards, but his house is austere; there are no pictures on the wall or homey flourishes. His one vanity, if you could call it that, is his gun collection from the Afghan war, trophies he took off dead Russians. Khan fought in the Al-Badr battalion, made up primarily of Arabs who took the jihad - or holy war - back with them to Algeria, Egypt and Sudan. Their experiences in the Afghan conflict color the way many Muslims see the world today: if we can topple the mighty Soviet empire with Korans and rocket launchers, we can also...