Word: mujahedine
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...State for Political Affairs. U.S. negotiators fear, however, that a deal will falter because of two Soviet preconditions for withdrawal: the formation of an interim government that includes Najibullah's People's Democratic Party, and the end of U.S., Chinese and other foreign military support of the rebel mujahedin. U.S. aid alone has been estimated at $600 million a year...
...Kunar province, northeast of Kabul, the rebels recently succeeded in organizing one of the largest and most complex offensives of the war. Long columns of mujahedin, armed with everything from 19th century Mausers to brand-new Egyptian- and Chinese-made Kalashnikov assault rifles, trudged up the forested ridges along the Pakistan-Afghan border. On Nov. 13 some 10,000 rebels attacked Soviet and Afghan government troops along a 60-mile front. In the first hour of the fighting, a mujahedin Chinese-made BM-12 rocket launcher at Nawa Pass, southeast of Asadabad, completely annihilated an Afghan army post...
...battlefield at Kunar, the once dreaded Mi-24 Hind helicopter gunships were taken almost entirely out of the fighting by the Stingers. They flew only a few sorties under cover of night, when Stingers are difficult to aim. Said mujahedin Leader Massood Khalili of the helicopters' decline: "For nine years the dragon ruled the skies over Afghanistan. Now the dragon is dead...
...spokesman for the People's Mujahedin, an Iranian resistance group, said last week that China not only continues to sell Silkworms to the Ayatullah Khomeini, but that last year more than 100 Revolutionary Guards and Iranian military men traveled to China for missile training. The spokesman said some of these trainees serve in the 26th Salman Missile Brigade, the unit responsible for the Silkworm attacks on Kuwait launched from the Iranian- occupied Fao peninsula in Iraq...
Armacost's trip was originally intended as a friendly call to discuss both U.S. aid, which is slated to total $4.2 billion over a six-year period, and the war in neighboring Soviet-occupied Afghanistan. Refugee camps in Pakistan serve as bases of operations for 100,000 U.S.-supported mujahedin guerrilla fighters who are battling the Soviets. Pakistan is the main pipeline for the rebels' arms, including sophisticated Stinger and Blowpipe antiaircraft missiles...