Word: muhajedeen
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Charles Bork. Yale 81, publisher of the right wing Yale Free News, and Gregory D Elia, travelled for two and a half weeks in March through border areas and combat zones taking hundreds of photos and interviewing Afghani guerrillas known as muhajedeen...
After a week of preparation, they were disguised as tribesmen by the muhajedeen and taken on a seven-hour bus trip to the Afghan border. The trip, which is illegal for Westerners, involved several close calls as the bus passed through Pakistani security checks...
...journey became more harrowing as Bork and D'Elia passed into Afghanistan Accompanied by ten muhajedeen fighters, a guide, and an interpreter, they went thirty miles into the Afghan province of Paktia, crossing snow-covered mountains laced with Soviet air-dropped mines, and passing bombed-out villages...
...With anti-aircraft missiles they [muhajedeen] can win in a year," said D' Elia...
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