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More than once, the rebels' ferocity has proved adaptable when confronted with particular problems. About two months ago, mujahidin noticed that even on those rare occasions when they got a clear shot at a Soviet soldier, he often survived. They did not need a mullah to tell them that the Soviets had started wearing bulletproof vests. Soon after a force of paratroopers arrived at Asmar in early March, 40 Jamiat snipers in the hills around the small town claimed 300 kills. Snarls Guleb Seyed, Jamiat commander of Baragay village: "I tell my men, aim for the head...
...formative memories were of camels, tents, festooned warriors and "sitting beside my father in the twilight above a gorge, hoping he would get a shot at a leopard." At age seven, Thesiger accompanied his father to Somaliland, where the British were fighting dervishes under the command of the Mad Mullah. A few weeks later the boy was watching shells burst over the Turkish lines in the Yemen...
According to an old Persian proverb, "There are three things I have never seen-the eye of an ant, the foot of a snake and the charity of a mullah...
...mullah and the mob have provided Jimmy Carter, vicar of Satan in their eyes, with a smokescreen for all the failures of his presidency: inflation, energy policy, the increasing desperation of the poor, tax reform, an urban housing short-age, declining productivity...
...down Soviet soldiers. Janeb Gul, for example, a 45-year-old wheat farmer, stayed in Peshawar just long enough to buy a rifle and a pocketful of bullets. Carrying a string of prayer beads and joined by three fellow Afghans, he returned to avenge the death of his village mullah at the hands of government cadres from Kabul...