Word: mujahedin
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...involved--if only indirectly. Congress has secretly allocated $470 million for the current fiscal year for the Central Intelligence Agency to help arm Afghanistan's anti-Soviet resistance fighters. But large amounts of military materiel purchased by the CIA and funneled through Pakistan reportedly are failing to reach the mujahedin guerrillas. Instead, for reasons that range from expediency to personal profit, arms are being appropriated, traded, sold or hidden by groups with access to the shipments. That includes Pakistan's armed forces, Afghan political parties based in Pakistan, rebel commanders and individual guerrillas...
...interviews with Pakistanis, Afghans and Westerners in Peshawar and Quetta, Pakistan's two gateway cities to Afghanistan, as well as in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad, evidence emerges that a large portion of the U.S. military aid--some claim as much as 50%--never reaches the mujahedin. Because of the secrecy that surrounds the pipeline (Pakistan denies that it exists), the figure is difficult to confirm. In Washington, Reagan Administration officials and members of Congress concede that shipments to Afghanistan are being skimmed, but there is sharp disagreement over how significant the losses...
...Mujahedin commanders trade weapons to raise the money needed to transport supplies across the Pakistan border to Afghanistan...
...elite commandos of the Border Protection Group. The Soviets have special forces (known as Spetsnaz) attached to every Red Army unit to perform intelligence gathering and to operate behind enemy lines. In Afghanistan, small (ten-to-15-man) Spetsnaz teams have begun to disrupt the ability of the rebel mujahedin to move freely at night on their supply trails. Israel also has special forces attached to every military unit...
There are strong arguments for that idea, but also some serious problems. For one, the contras cannot be expected to fight indefinitely without realistic hope of victory. They and their country are different in key ways from the mujahedin in Afghanistan, who are fighting to expel 100,000 alien infidels, and Jonas Savimbi's forces in Angola, who, unlike the contras, control the territory from which they operate...