May 7th, 2008 8: 59pm. .one problem Melanie, the word "mujahedin" has very suspicious root. steve.    From Wordnik.com.  [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference

Both the Soviets and the Afghan resistance ” known as mujahedin ” seek to influence this generation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan's Other War] Reference

At the time, the ISI was running secret camps for "mujahedin" fighters along the Afghan border with U.S. funding.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Mill Times | FortMillTime.com - HOMEPAGE] Reference

The term "mujahedin" refers loosely to militia members who fought against or alongside the Red Army in the 1980s.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spero News] Reference

"mujahedin" fighters and bandits and the only safe way to travel to Kandahar was by air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

"mujahedin", Moscow gave them newer tanks and helped to train new battalions to take on the guerrillas outside the capital.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference

He'd been hit leading a charge against dug-in mujahedin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haunted] Reference

Armed former mujahedin have traded their guns for political manifestos.    From Wordnik.com.  [A FREE-FOR-ALL] Reference

And the anti-Soviet Muslim rebels, or mujahedin, knew how to play the game.    From Wordnik.com.  [Occupational Hazards] Reference

Soviet deal to cut off arms to both the government and the rebel mujahedin.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Man Is An Island] Reference

As for the mujahedin, "They are the only ones who have come here to help us.".    From Wordnik.com.  [HELP FROM THE HOLY WARRIORS] Reference

Even before Massoud's defection, the former mujahedin were racked by disunity.    From Wordnik.com.  [STRIKING A BARGAIN] Reference

Haji Khano Gul, a former mujahedin commander and now an alleged opium smuggler.    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

Until the mujahedin arrived last June, Alma Halep rarely stepped inside a mosque.    From Wordnik.com.  [HELP FROM THE HOLY WARRIORS] Reference

Nasiriya's desperate condition has bolstered the fortunes of the former mujahedin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A FREE-FOR-ALL] Reference

The rebels bragged of Soviet Muslims from Central Asia defecting to mujahedin ranks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Occupational Hazards] Reference

"The deserts of Afghanistan are being irrigated with the blood of mujahedin," he told Haroon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rumors Of Bin Laden's Lair] Reference

At 15, he was nearly drafted into the communist Afghan Army to fight against the insurgent mujahedin.    From Wordnik.com.  ['I Couldn't Turn My Back'] Reference

Zarqawi had recently formed a mujahedin Shura Council to put more of an Iraqi face on the insurgency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Terrorist] Reference

Pakistani Kashmiris, Pakistani volunteers and veterans of the Afghan mujahedin now lead the rebellion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terror Tactics High Over The Himalayas] Reference

(That's when the CIA was supporting mujahedin guerrillas trying to free the country from Soviet occupation.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Periscope] Reference

During the bin Laden era, at least five Qaeda training camps in Afghanistan were devoted to Kashmiri mujahedin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Al Qaeda's New Threat] Reference

The movement began in 1994, two years after mujahedin fighters had overthrown the Soviet puppet regime in Kabul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Inside The Mullah's Mind] Reference

You said you were the first to shoot the inside of a madrassa -- or a training school for mujahedin -- in Basra.    From Wordnik.com.  [Behind The Saddam Posters] Reference

When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, the Saudis sent money to the mujahedin and glorified their cause.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Allies Who Made Our Foes] Reference

His unit specialized in ambushing mujahedin convoys smuggling weapons and other supplies across the Pakistan border.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Haunted] Reference

The Arab mujahedin flaunted their bankrolls, rented costly villas in Kabul and often treated their hosts impatiently.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Afghan Defector's Story] Reference

Many former mujahedin resent the fact that these Afghans have laid claim to the fruits of a victory they did not win.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Exiles Return] Reference

Mohammad, a thin, bearded man in his 30s, complained that the foreign mujahedin "got even better food than we pilots did.".    From Wordnik.com.  [An Afghan Defector's Story] Reference

Many dushmany (a pejorative local term for the mujahedin) were blown up, but so were channels essential for local farmers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning From the Soviets] Reference

The mujahedin would "melt away like mist," recalls Paulius Purickis, an ethnic Lithuanian draftee who served as a sergeant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning From the Soviets] Reference

Many of us secretly rooted for the rebel mujahedin, who were backed by the United States, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and China.    From Wordnik.com.  [Occupational Hazards] Reference

To do that he needs to make some headway with the non-Pashtun communities that are loyal to the various mujahedin chieftains.    From Wordnik.com.  [STRIKING A BARGAIN] Reference

Osama bin Laden is well guarded: the renegade Saudi heir moves with a hundred masked mujahedin carrying AK-47s and rocket launchers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Terrorist Most Wanted] Reference

In the 1980s, the CIA secretly backed the mujahedin, the Islamic freedom fighters rebelling against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Road To September 11] Reference

Moscow grafted a veneer of communism onto a narrow, repressive, and widely hated Pashtun tribal clique that was no match for the mujahedin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Learning From the Soviets] Reference