Word: mujahedin
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...advanced from Uruzgan, north of Kandahar; on the other side of the city, thousands of armed men from southern border towns loyal to another tribal elder, Ghul Agha Sherzai, moved into positions in the hills in the east. A delegation of tribal elders led by Abdul Haqiq, a former mujahedin commander, spent three days with Taliban representatives negotiating the handover of Kandahar and three other southern Afghan provinces. Under the plan, Mullah Naqib, an ex-commander, and Haji Bashar, a businessman allegedly linked to the opium trade, would both become interim leaders of Kandahar. According to sources in the city...
...veterans of the Afghan war to North Yemen to fight the Marxist regime in the Republic of South Yemen. "North Yemen is an arms market. You can buy a weapon anywhere. He had to be stopped," says Turki. "The kingdom said, 'You have done your best to help the mujahedin in Afghanistan. Leave it at that.' He was not pleased...
...demurred, but AH-64 Apache choppers are already suspected to be in the region, with A-10s on the way. If U.S. gunships take to the skies above Kabul, the Taliban will likely raid what is left of their stash of 250 antiaircraft Stinger missiles?arms sent to the mujahedin in the mid-'80s by the CIA?to try to shoot the Americans down...
...advanced from Uruzgan, north of Kandahar; on the other side of the city, thousands of armed men from southern border towns loyal to another tribal elder, Ghul Agha Sherzai, moved into positions in the hills in the east. A delegation of tribal elders led by Abdul Haqiq, a former mujahedin commander, spent three days with Taliban representatives negotiating the handover of Kandahar and three other southern Afghan provinces. Under the plan, Mullah Naqib, an ex-commander, and Haji Bashar, a businessman allegedly linked to the opium trade, would both become interim leaders of Kandahar. According to sources in the city...
...1900s, when King Mohammed Zahir Shah ruled Afghanistan, wealthy women strolled Kabul?s streets in jeans and Western dresses. The Soviets, although brutal in their occupation of the country, maintained women?s rights during their decade-long rule. But when the Islam-inspired mujahedin government took over in 1992, life began to change. Women still could attend university, especially to study in the medical and educational fields, but many started wearing head scarves to appease the mullahs. When the Taliban came to power in 1996, its fanatical clerics erased all remaining rights: women are forbidden to leave the house without...