Word: sangare
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Dates: during 2001-2001
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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...
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