They kill many honest scholars, preachers and loyal mujahadin. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 7, 2007] Reference
MICHAEL WARE, "TIME" MAGAZINE: This video is straight from the mujahadin. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2004] Reference
It was formed back in 1994 by clerics and students, many are former mujahadin (ph). From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 19, 2007] Reference
That he was not a great commander in the mujahadin fight against the soviets in Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Aug 15, 2006] Reference
In 1989, the U.S. backed mujahadin were on the verge of driving the Soviet Army out of Afghanistan. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 18, 2005] Reference
That al Qaeda's mujahadin, as he calls them, are currently planning and he said expect to hear more about that. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 19, 2006] Reference
And the Taliban said that they could mobilize a large mujahadin (ph), a large fighting force to invade that country. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 15, 2001] Reference
KING: Peter, an al Qaeda linked group, the mujahadin Shura (ph) council, claims it's holding the two missing servicemen. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 19, 2006] Reference
HASTINGS: And their fighting us now, some of the mujahadin we trained are the ones we are actually engaged in on a daily basis there. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2009] Reference
The photo of the Afghan mujahadin does not include Gulbuddin Hekmatyar because, contrary to my contention in this post, he did not meet with Ronald Reagan in the White House. From Wordnik.com. [October « 2008 « Antiwar.com Blog] Reference
Seven years ago, the U.S. experienced one form of repayment when an offshoot of the mujahadin army which forced the Soviets out of Afghanistan, growing stronger in men, money and material by the day. From Wordnik.com. [Somali Woes: The Perils of Intervention] Reference
SHEIKH HASSAN NASRALLAH, HEZBOLLAH LEADER (through translator): In 2000 we in Lebanon, we with modest capabilities and efforts and with a small number of mujahadin, with few supplies and little equipment, presented a model of how resistance can overcome an occupation army. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 21, 2006] Reference
I have not trusted Karzai since I first learned of him years ago — he was associated with Unocal oil company — he has been affiliated with the mujahadin, with the Taliban, and regardless of his efforts in support of his country, it is apparent that he would hold no loyalty toward America if it benefits him. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 5, 2010] Reference
Now, to the very north of this large province are the mountain valleys where the Taliban or the mujahadin fought the Russians and there British and American troops are going up the same valleys the Russians did, littered with the rusting hulks of Soviet armor from past battles, trying to route them out of the exact same strong holds. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 28, 2008] Reference
Lightning might not strike twice in the same place, but if they could only get the other great Western empire to repeat the folly of the Soviets and try to occupy Afghanistan, the same factors which let the mujahadin defeat an advanced Western military machine would allow them to defeat the most feared and respected such military machine. From Wordnik.com. [You Got To Move | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
Brzezinski is not only the architect of the mujahadin-led campaign against Russia in Afghanistan in the 1980s, but also, the author of "The Grand Chessboard -- American Primacy and it's Geostrategic Imperatives", the operating theory behind the war on terror which involves massive US intervention in Central Asia to control vital resources, fragment Russia, and surround manufacturing giant, China. From Wordnik.com. [Putin Walks into a Trap] Reference
They don't get used when we refer to Iraq sanctions that killed more than a hundred thousand children "It was worth it," chirped the then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, or the invasions that have killed thousands upon thousands of Afghan and Iraqi civilians, or the millions of deaths in the Iraq-Iran conflict back when the US was backing Saddam Hussein, or the proto-Taliban mujahadin supported by the West against the Soviets. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Both fronts benefited from mujahadin veterans, some of whom became al Qaeda. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Ask the British about their war in Ireland, or the Soviets about the mujahadin. From Wordnik.com. [Stolen Thunder] Reference
Of course, it's generally accepted that "Al Qaeda" began with the CIA's support for the mujahadin in Afghanistan in the 1980s. From Wordnik.com. [911Blogger.com - Paying Attention to 9/11 Related Alternative News] Reference
The US and Saudi Arabia poured money into Pakistan to aid the various mujahadin groups fighting just to the north, most of whom could readily be considered Islamist. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
"We want to show them they are not all-powerful and the mujahadin of Afghanistan can carry out attacks on our enemies in any part of the country," the spokesman said. From Wordnik.com. [AL JAZEERA ENGLISH (AJE)] Reference
In fact, in all of the "small wars" since 1945, the guerrilla or militia or mujahadin armies have shown how easily they can either stymie or defeat big national armies. From Wordnik.com. [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference
The mujahadin had never solidified into a unitary movement, remaining instead an assortment of groups with a common interest in expelling the Soviet Union and its collaborators in Kabul. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
Indeed, even during the war with the Soviet Union, nominally allied mujahadin groups (eg, Hizb-i Islami and Jamiat-i Islami) periodically fought each other, allowing the Soviet Union to win over local tribes who found the feuding mujahadin more threatening than the Kabul government and its foreign backers. From Wordnik.com. [CounterPunch] Reference
I have not trusted Karzai since I first learned of him years ago - he was associated with Unocal oil company - he has been affiliated with the mujahadin, with the Taliban, and regardless of his efforts in support of his country, it is apparent that he would hold no loyalty toward America if it benefits him. From Wordnik.com. [Center for American Progress Action Fund] Reference
The Road to Guantanamo), whose disillusionment with the treatment of Muslims by the kafir (unbelievers) has led him to become a soldier of the mujahadin - or, in his own words. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Al Qaeda's American mujahadin. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Sep 12, 2006] Reference
But in Afghanistan, there's another reason: Antonio Maria Costa: '... during the past quarter century, so many conflicts -- against the Soviets, against one another, the mujahadin, the Civil War period, the Taliban rules, the fight against the Taliban, all of this has created a context whereby people, especially internally displaced people, especially refugees, finding themselves in dire conditions, so some of them started to use opium as a way of just forgetting the daily chores, and the daily difficulties and the tragedies in life President Karzai:' ... drug addiction unfortunately has come to Afghanistan, mainly as consequence of being refugees in our neighboring countries. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Protest against agriculture policies] Reference
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