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...that a "gas tanker" had exploded in the tunnel. Without offering additional information on the accident, he argued against reports of enormous casualties. "We would have had to call for help internationally if such a disaster had occurred," said Wafamal. But Western diplomatic and military sources, citing reports from Kabul, and Afghan refugee leaders in New Delhi claim that a major tragedy did occur. One eyewitness, a refugee who gave his name only as Abdul, was riding on a bus that was about 65 ft. from the tunnel's northern entrance when he heard an explosion. "Black, oily smoke...
...Kabul is a city in mourning. According to age-old custom, red banners have been flying throughout the capital. The daily 5-min. death notices broadcast by state-owned Radio Kabul have lasted from 15 to 25 min. Since the invasion in 1979, tales of carnage have been as ubiquitous in Kabul as the Soviet army. This time, however, the Afghan capital is reeling from a disaster that perhaps no one intended...
...happened two weeks ago, but because of restrictions on journalists moving about the country, word started trickling out only last week. According to Afghan refugees newly arrived in Pakistan, a fuel tanker in a military convoy collided with another military truck 70 miles north of Kabul, in the 1.7-mile-long Salang Tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains. Initial reports said that there was a fiery explosion. As many as 700 Soviet troops and 2,000 Afghan soldiers and civilians may have died. Later press estimates put the total number of deaths at between...
...would agree that the United States is not better prepared to fight any kind of war as a result. A draft would still take months to mount while the standing army would do any initial fighting. Soviet tanks, by the way, are still parked on the streets of downtown Kabul...
Meanwhile, the mujahedin have been attacking elsewhere in Afghanistan. A section of the pipeline that takes natural gas from Afghanistan to the Soviet Union was blown up several weeks ago. The latest reports from Kabul say that trucks are still bringing in Soviet bodies for shipment home...