Word: mujaddadi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that three of the six regiments were antiaircraft units, they pointed out that Afghanistan's mujahedin resistance fighters lack an air force. Gorbachev's list also included an armored regiment not suited for the mountainous terrain where most of the fighting is taking place. In Islamabad, Resistance Leader Sibghatullah Mujaddadi asked, "How many years will it take for the withdrawal of all the 120,000 Soviet troops if pullback of 8,000 is going to take six months...
...ancient differences proved stronger than the new need for common cause. Negotiations were frustrated from the outset when the tough but relatively small Afghanistan National Liberation Front, led by stern Sigbatullah Mujaddadi, balked at sitting down with the others for fear of having to cede authority to larger groups. Other rebel factions soon fell out over ideological differences...
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