Word: mujahedin
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...million-strong Pashtun tribe, which is spread across western Pakistan and most of Afghanistan, are moving to bring back Mohammed Zahir Shah, the deposed Afghan King who is living in Rome. In high-walled and guarded villas, these elders receive a stream of whispering chieftains, Afghan ex-army generals, mujahedin commanders and Pakistani officials--all eager recruits for an uprising against the Taliban. "It's happening so fast," says Hamad Karzai, an influential Afghan Pashtun elder who is backing the ex-monarch's return. "The signals for a change are coming from inside the Taliban...
...Ibrahim, a veteran of the mujahedin struggle against the Soviets from 1979-89, has a small farm at the base of the mountains in Nangarhar. He used to harvest wheat and corn and grow walnuts, apricots and grapes on his land. But since the onset of drought, he hasn't been able to grow enough to live on, so he came to Karkhla. He is not officially registered as a refugee and has no ID papers, but the Pakistani police leave people like him alone as long as they don't try to make their way to a major city...
...Like many young Afghans, Omar was forced to trade education for a warrior's life when the Soviet Union invaded the country in December 1979. In Omar's case, he left a seminary in Kandahar; his poverty-stricken parents had enrolled him there to become a cleric. Fellow mujahedin fighters remember him as a good marksman who disabled many Russian tanks with his RPG-7 rockets. He suffered several injuries in the war, including the loss of his right...
...other hand, support for the mujahedin, from whom the Taliban rose, did prevent the Soviets from gaining control of Afghanistan. Their military failure helped precipitate the downfall of the Soviet system and the collapse of the Russian empire. That probably would have happened anyway?but Afghanistan brought it forward by about 10 years...
...Noted "The Americans love Pepsi-Cola, we love death." MAULANA INYADULLAH, Afghan mujahedin fighter, on why the soldiers of the Taliban have no fear of a possible invasion by U.S. forces and their allies...