Mujahideen training in afghanistan books

When the mujahideen had it good, they had it very good indeed. Afghanistan s mujahideen were exceptionally diverse, including ethnic pashtuns, uzbeks, tajiks, and others. But pakistan, too, began fostering islamist extremism. Ap reporter, photographer and videographer ishtiaq mahsud spent six days with fighters from the pakistani taliban close to the afghan border. This book is part of the encyclopedia jihad, collected and distributed by the.

It is told in the words of the mujahideen themselves and provides a dramatic and graphic document of what coalition forces can expect if they become embroiled in a land war in afghanistan. Some were shia muslims, sponsored by iran, while most factions were made up of sunni muslims. An extraordinary little document is making the rounds among the taliban of afghanistan. The marxist leader of the country, hafizullah amin. The united states and the mujahideen history of western. Frankenstein the cia created world news the guardian. Afghanistans resistance movement originated in chaos and, at first, regional warlords waged virtually all of its fighting locally. The mujahideen fought against soviet and dra troops during the soviet afghan war 19791989. Operation cyclone was the code name for the united states central intelligence agency cia program to arm and finance the mujahideen, in afghanistan from 1979 to 1989, prior to and during the military intervention by the ussr in support of its client, the democratic republic of afghanistan. In december 1979, only a few weeks after the us embassy in tehran was overrun, soviet troops intervened in afghanistan.

A guide to the worlds only superpower portions of the books. Back in the 1980s, the united states considered the mujahideen the good guys because they were waging a guerilla war against the soviets union in afghanistan. As first reported in newsweek by ron moreau and sami yousufzai on dec. Arsof afghanistan in cover created by earl moniz csi press cmh pub 701001 pin. The us enlisted the help of the mujahideen to fight the soviet army in 1980s afghanistan. Afghan guerrilla warfare is a study of operations and actions of the afghan mujahideen resistance fighting against the soviet forces in afghanistan 197989. Based on hundreds of interviews with former mujahideen in the mid 1990s, it is an invaluble account of how asymmetric warfare looks from the guerrillas side. Mujahideen training camps in afghanistan, pakistan producing new wave of fighters pubbi, pakistan a sixhour walk along a narrow path that runs like a seam through afghanistans urgun mountains leads to a remote village near the pakistani border. He has is the author of three books on the sovietafghan war, including the other side of the mountain.