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Because it takes months for a book to go to press, it is entirely coincidence that Junger’s last chapter, the most recent essay, narrates his time last year with Ahmed Shah Massoud, then the leader of Afghanistan’s rebel Northern Alliance. Last year, when Junger spent a month with Massoud in the mountains of the Afghanistan, Massoud was an unknown in the western world—despite orchestrating some of the most brilliant warfare waged in the 1980s and 1990s and holding off first the Soviet Army and then the Taliban regime for years. Many...
...More needs to be done,” said Harvard Islamic Society President Saif Shah Mohammed ’02. “Civil society in America and the rest of the world should step up its efforts at alleviating the suffering of these innocent people...
...trying to set up a new government in Afghanistan? Who should be the new ruler? Most strategists hope that the Taliban will be unseated by the current strikes - and many hope to make a powerful statement by returning the country?s banished former king Mohammed Zaher Shah to power. The 86-year old Shah has been living in Rome since he was deposed in 1973; it?s not clear whether he would be interested in taking up the throne again...
...moved in Afghanistan against cia and Zionist agents, two specters that Khomeini himself routinely invokes to justify his own actions. But the Soviet apparently got nowhere. A member of Iran's clerical establishment later said that the Ayatullah sharply told the convoy that 'Brezhnev was stepping into the Shah's shoes and was heading for the same catastrophe that befell the ex-dictator. He said the Soviets would come to grief if they remained in Afghanistan...
...Alliance, took advantage of developments to make gains on the ground, and fierce fighting was reported near the gateway northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif. Even before reports emerged that U.S. and British special forces were deployed inside the country, Western diplomats met with Afghanistan's former King Zahir Shah and other opposition figures in apparent attempts to help build a successor government...