Word: mujahedin
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...medical and chemical-warfare specialists flew their colors with special pride. Its members resisted outside help to the point of refusing desert-camouflage fatigues, resting content with green winter uniforms and caps complete with earflaps. Asian Muslims -- including 11,000 Pakistanis, 2,000 Bangladeshis and about 310 Afghan mujahedin guerrillas -- were assigned to guard Islam's shrines. As for the inconspicuous Moroccans and other minor units -- well, the way Washington was feeling last week, they also served who only stood and waited...
...alliance remained only in its shakedown stage, and many of its parts still seemed decorative. As of late last week, U.S. forces made up more than 60% of the coalition's 675,000 active personnel, among them deployments ranging from 36,000 crack Egyptian infantrymen down to some Afghan mujahedin guerrillas and 150 troops from Honduras. What the smaller land contingents -- as well as the token few warships sent by countries like Australia, Spain and Greece -- could accomplish that the alliance's core partners could not remained unanswered by the Pentagon. Even such a muscular U.S. ally as Italy, moreover...
Still, the Administration is not reconciled to cutting Pakistan off permanently. Islamabad is the main link to U.S.-supplied mujahedin guerrillas in Afghanistan and the contributor of 2,000 troops to the gulf buildup. Two weeks ago, State Department officials sounded out Congress on extending aid without certification until elections are held in Pakistan next week. Legislators refused to go along with a waiver...
Journalists often depend on the goodwill of strangers. On assignment, Stanley and Nachtwey learned that Pakistani police were preventing foreigners from crossing the border into Afghanistan. Nachtwey began to grow a beard and donned guerrilla garb in order to pass through in a truck with a group of mujahedin. Stanley crawled into a burlap bag and hid among sacks filled with wheat. "On the one hand, I was scared," she recalls. "On the other hand, I felt absurd." On the way back, Stanley rode openly with the rebels, but dressed in a burka, a head-to-toe Muslim garment...
Henry, good-humored and alert, is not so very different from Akbar, the smart-alecky mujahedin boy who in the battle zone of Afghanistan grew closer to his comrades than to his father. In Henry's insular world, his homies are his only family. It is his enemies who keep changing. Despite designer sneakers and all the food he needs, Henry is far poorer than Akbar. He has no cause, no purpose to his fighting, no dream of redemption in another life...