Kazakhstan ponders joining Afghan fray Dec 11, 2008
LONDON - Kazakhstan is seriously considering sending its peacekeepers to Afghanistan, which would mark the first deployment of soldiers from Central Asia since the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s ... Pressure against the deployment is strong internally, not only from pacifists in Kazakhstan's parliament, but also active opposition from Kazakhstani veterans of the Soviet-Afghan war. (Asia Times Online)
No deadline to act against LeT: Pakistan Dec 7, 2008
Lieutenant General Hamid Gul is a retired Pakistani General famous for heading the Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) -- Pakistani intelligence agency, after the Soviet-Afghan War and for instigating the Kashmir insurgency in 1989 with the support of Mujahideen that fought in the Soviet-Afghan war. Hamid Gul served as the Director General of Pakistan's ISI during 1987-89, mainly in the time when Benazir Bhutto was Prime Minister of Pakistan. (Times of India)
Secret AFP files, photos left on hotel computer Nov 7, 2008
It revealed plans to "carefully monitor" a political party in South Asia whose leaders included "Soviet-Afghan war veterans". The document stressed that "this information [be] treated on a sensitive need-to-know basis". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
Fremont man free after 4 years in prison Oct 13, 2008
Rahimi came to California at age 12 as a refugee of the Soviet-Afghan war. He was arrested and ordered deported in 2003, when immigration authorities discovered he had pleaded guilty to having sex with his underage girlfriend six years before. (San Francisco Chronicle)
We have the money Oct 3, 2008
The Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) resulted in a Russian defeat so demoralizing that it contributed significantly to the disintegration of the former Soviet Union in 1991. We are now on track to repeat virtually all the errors committed by previous invaders of Afghanistan over the centuries. (Asia Times Online)
Immigrant's choice - prison or deportation Jul 28, 2008
He came to California from Afghanistan at age 12, a refugee of the Soviet-Afghan war and, he says, a victim of torture. His family settled in Fremont, where he went to school, got a job, became thoroughly Americanized - and made one bad mistake. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Uzbek army base blast kills three Jul 13, 2008
The report said the base housed weapons left over from the Soviet-Afghan War. A regional official, quoted by the Russian RIA-Novosti news agency, appealed for calm and said the fire was out. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
Jordanian film shows hometown of al-Qaida in Iraq leader in a different light Jun 2, 2008
He wears a long beard, a long shirt and trousers that stop above the tops of his ankles the signature style of Islamic militants who fought in the Soviet-Afghan war of the 1980s. But Massad's point is that appearances aren't everything. (International Herald Tribune -- Travel)
52 comments Feb 14, 2008
Iran's Real Threat - HUMAN EVENTS. Hon. Lord WaddingtonPosted: 02/13/2008. (Human Events Online)
'Charlie' won't play in Russia Feb 11, 2008
Local commentators are debating whether the film's subject -- the Soviet-Afghan war -- is too hot to handle for local audiences. UPI Russia topper Yevgeny Beginin denied that, saying, "We simply decided that the film would not make a profit.". (Variety)
U.S. should support democracy in Pakistan — not military dictators Jan 6, 2008
Their mettle was tested by the Soviet-Afghan war with the military training and financial support from the United States and Saudi Arabia. They started throwing their weight around and the politicians and the military took notice and started appeasing them. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Canada announces new Afghan anti-mine funding Dec 4, 2007
Bev Oda, the minister responsible for the Canadian International Development Agency, responds to a question during question period in the House of Commons in Ottawa on Monday, Dec. 3, 2007. (Tom Hanson / THE CANADIAN PRESS). (CTV.ca)
Should There Be A "War on Terror"? And Are We Winning That War? Oct 3, 2007
Given the enormous growth of Sunni Islamic fundamentalism since the end of the Soviet-Afghan war, given how easy it is for folks to travel to Iraq from all over the Middle East, given how important Iraq is in Islamic history, we should have seen tens of thousands of volunteers ... But it appears that the Soviet-Afghan War, a backwater affair against a second-tier infidel that many of the devout easily ignored, attracted many more holy warriors than has America and Britain in Iraq. (New Republic)
Six Years Later Sep 11, 2007
He had hoped to lure the United States into the same sort of protracted quagmire, where U.S. troops would have no choice but to occupy a tattered, dangerous country, while as in the Soviet-Afghan war radical Muslims would come from all over the world to help humiliate another world power. The thing is, Bin Laden thought this second war would also be in Afghanistan. (Fox News)
Batesville grad helps Soviet solders tell their WWII stories May 9, 2007
He is also conducting interviews with Russian veterans of the Soviet-Afghan War. "We are just in the initial stages of gathering material for that book," he said. (Pine Bluff Commercial, AR)
Soviet Afghan Battle for Hill 3234 Mar 15, 2007
1988 Bloody Stand During the Soviet Afghan War ... The paratroopers were in constant combat over the next eight years of the bloody Soviet Afghan War. (Suite101.com)
Composition of Forces at Hill 3234 Mar 15, 2007
The Black Storks were part of Pakistan Army Intelligence s Special Services Group that dressed up as Afghan Mujahideen and fought during the Soviet-Afghan war ... The Soviet-Afghan War: Breaking the Hammer & Sickle, published in VFW magazine. (Suite101.com)
Al-Qaeda's China problem Feb 27, 2007
Since the end of the Soviet-Afghan war, China has been confronting the self-described threats of "extremism, separatism and terrorism" in its Alaska-sized Xinjiang region in the country's far northwest. Where the region was once predominantly populated by Uighurs, this group is now a minority in its own "autonomous region". (Asia Times Online)
Lanine: Canada in Afghanistan Jan 14, 2007
Like the Soviet-Afghan war, this one is fought in the name of state-security, a peaceful Afghanistan, and womens rights. Canadians fight the same people the Soviets fought between1979-1989: terrorists, extremists, insurgents, and bandits. (Zmag.org)
