Word: kabul
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...mission began early in July, when small groups of Afghan resistance fighters infiltrated into the hills above the Soviet military air base a few miles outside Kabul. Last week more than a thousand rebel troops swooped down in a daring raid that raged for eight hours. The attack, the heaviest since Soviet troops marched into Afghanistan six years ago, was a response to the increased numbers of soldiers and supplies, including more than 80 powerful Mi-24 helicopter gunships, that have been flowing into the base over the past two months. Said one leader of the guerrillas who are known...
...mujahedin spokesman in Pakistan claimed that the attackers blew up ammunition dumps, aviation-fuel tanks, barracks where Soviet flight crews and traffic controllers slept, and water tanks, crucial in drought-stricken Kabul. One Western military analyst observed that the raid showed both that "the iron discipline of the mujahedin has not been broken" and that the CIA weapons pipeline to the rebels is improving. MALAYSIA Where Dadah Means Death...
...though, Mirwais' stardom has not brought him riches. At one Kabul bazaar, music sellers offer 57 different tapes of his performances, all pirated. At a recent wedding, an Afghan thrust a boom box into the singer's face, unabashedly recording him for future sales. Copyright laws, like road safety and gun control, have not yet gained much traction in Afghanistan...
...last 25 years of scorching battle and exile. "I sing what I feel," he says with a child's simplicity. His father was a famous musician who died when Mirwais was only 5 years old. The family had the misfortune of living in the Char-Deh neighborhood of Kabul on the front line between two warring commanders; as mortars and rockets exploded around them, Mirwais and his brothers risked their lives every day just to draw water from a communal well...
...public by Taliban zealots. So the family buried their musical instruments under a chicken coop in the garden. Another brother left to sell flowers in Iran, while Nur-ul-Haq hawked carpets in Pakistan. Mirwais, who was just 5 years old when the Taliban took over, stayed in Kabul with his mother...