Word: mujahedin
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...overland link between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, the Salang Highway is the primary resupply artery for the 115,000 Soviet troops battling mujahedin resistance fighters in Afghanistan. Three and a half years ago, hundreds of Soviet soldiers were said to have perished inside the highway's 1.7-mile-long tunnel through the Hindu Kush mountains, following a collision of vehicles in a military convoy. Last week Western diplomatic sources reported that the same area was the scene of a bloody new calamity for Soviet and Afghanistan government forces...
...bomb blast. As Iran's President Seyed Ali Khamene'i was delivering a speech at the University of Tehran, a terrorist detonated a homemade bomb strapped around his waist, killing himself and five other people. The President, who escaped unhurt, blamed the attack on Iran's own Mujahedin-e Khalq guerrillas, who are trying to overthrow the country's leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
...villagers come together for days to feast, dance and race horses. More practically, the Muslim system of zakat (tithing) binds the community together by ensuring that a part of its wealth goes to its poor. Villages have therefore been the primary source of food, support and intelligence for the mujahedin guerrillas who oppose the Soviet-backed regime of Babrak Karmal. That is why the Soviets have used their bombs and tanks to reduce scores of communities to rubble. Of Afghanistan's 16 million people, more than half have been forced from their homes: up to 5 million have become...
...been destroyed, the fields lay fallow and 220 residents were dead. When word spread that an overpowering government assault was imminent, the villagers called a traditional council. "We decided that we all had to leave that very night and take our families to Pakistan," remembers Amin Jan, now a mujahedin commander...
During the Soviet offensive last April, the Afghan rebels combined strategy and weaponry to bloody effect. In one operation, 800 mujahedin, coordinating their attacks by radio, ambushed a fleet of Soviet vehicles traveling along the Salang Road, the main highway between Kabul and the Soviet border. By the following day, little remained of the Soviet procession save smoke, smashed and smoldering trucks, and the body of an Afghan government soldier (left). Four days later, the rebels struck again with a textbook ambush (above and right). They boxed in a Soviet convoy by firing rocket-propelled antitank grenades in front...