Word: jamiat
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...main rebel groups, based in Peshawar, the Jamiat-i-Islami, (Islamic Society) led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former law professor at Kabul University, is the strongest in Kunar. Every Jamiat guerrilla I encountered said that he wanted to be fighting, but not one of them was in combat. When this inconsistency was noted to Malik Makon, a bearded, 6-ft. leader of 300 rebels from Chenar village, the swarthy warrior grabbed my sleeve and shouted: "Tell Rabbani we need bullets and something to shoot down helicopters! Even our tea is almost gone...
...success -by at least two other rebel leaders. Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, 32, an engineer who studied at Kabul University, is highly regarded for his administrative skills. But his base of support, an organization called Hezb-i-Islami, may be too rigidly Muslim in outlook for some rebels. Another Muslim group, Jamiat-i-Islami, is led by Burhanuddin Rabbani, 40, a former professor of religion at Kabul University. Although Jamiat is considered more tolerant than Hekmatyar's group, Rabbani has no personal following outside of his native Badakhshan province, and his proposed alternative to Communism in Kabul seems woefully quaint: bring...