Word: mujahedin
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Many of the United Front soldiers are mujahedin who fought the Soviets here. They are distinguishable from civilians only by their guns. Their bases are equally hard for the untrained eye to discern. In the high mountains, their tiny fire points, or sangar, resemble little more than piles of rocks. In the peaceful-seeming villages of the plains, military bases blend in with the surrounding houses. Look through the narrow entrances of the high-walled compounds, many built to resemble fortresses, and you never know what you will find--a flower garden or a mortar emplacement. This is a land...
Cooperation is not limited to the big democracies: Pakistan's central bank has ordered private banks to freeze accounts held by Harakat ul-Mujahedin, a group fighting Indian rule in Kashmir that is on the U.S. list. And the financial crackdown has received cooperation from a wide list of nations that includes China, Colombia, Costa Rica and the Czech Republic...
...Harakat ul-Mujahedin, an Islamic group based in Pakistan, is seeking to end Indian control in the disputed region of Kashmir. It has claimed responsibility for killing Indian soldiers and civilians but denies it is a terrorist group. It culls donations from Gulf Arabs and runs training camps in Afghanistan. The U.S. State Department says its former leader has ties to bin Laden...
...religious center of Kandahar, put down his Koran to act. Like so many saints and tyrants before him, Omar says he discovered his destiny in a dream: God was calling him to save his country from the warlords. He had already given his right eye as a young mujahedin to Soviet shrapnel. Now, according to Taliban lore, he gathered together 30 like-minded men to avenge the abduction and rape of two young women; the guilty warlord was captured and killed. A movement was born, in the rare words of Omar, as "a simple band of dedicated youths determined...
...Nadeem has rejected Islam's more military strains. As an 18-year-old university student, he was recruited for training as a mujahedin fighter in Afghanistan. He lasted two days, then returned home. He won't discuss the experience, other than to say: "Their intentions weren't good." In the past 10 years, six of his college friends trained to fight the jihad in Kashmir; all of them died. "They absolutely wasted their lives," he says. "It's all politics. These groups aren't interested in the system of God." He makes no secret of his contempt for hard-line...