Word: jamiat
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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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...
...only stale millet bread and sairai leaves, which resemble holly in texture as well as appearance. "Because of Kunar's terrain I don't think we can be eliminated with guns," concludes Wahid, a 24-year-old former Kabul University chemistry student who serves as liaison between Jamiat units in Kunar and the headquarters in Peshawar. "But conditions are already so inhuman that I fear that many will starve...
...that even on those rare occasions when they got a clear shot at a Soviet soldier, he often survived. They did not need a mullah to tell them that the Soviets had started wearing bulletproof vests. Soon after a force of paratroopers arrived at Asmar in early March, 40 Jamiat snipers in the hills around the small town claimed 300 kills. Snarls Guleb Seyed, Jamiat commander of Baragay village: "I tell my men, aim for the head...
...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...