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Statement of jamiat-i–islami Mujahideen Commander






 

“What weapons do you most need? ”

“Anti-aircraft guns. And if we get anti-air missiles, you will see what a lesson we can give the Soviet invaders! ”

“How is the food situation in your part of Afghanistan? ”

“Very bad.”

“What will you do if you cannot get what you need? ”

“Why, perhaps we will kill ourselves, but we will certainly never surrender.”

 

 

* A manual for soldiers of the British Empire, with such helpful pattern sentences as “Silence! ” or “Bring me at once five hundred coolies, ” or “You are now under Government rule.” One of the most humiliating things that happened to me on this journey occurred when I was still on the plane and I proudly told the man in the seat beside me that I had studied some Pushtu, and he said something that I could not understand, and I said, “What? ” and he said, “I asked you how your Pushtu was.”

† The General told me that ammunition was hard to get, and when it was in good supply, the Peshawar-based organizations distributed it stingily, so as to keep the individual bands from becoming too independent. So it was like everything else. If their parties helped them too much they hurt themselves. So Commissioner Abdullah had thought, not wanting to give vocational training to the refugees because that took work away from Pakistanis, so he left them as beggars, as a burden. So our C.I.A. might have thought — why should they be in a hurry for this embarrassment to the Soviets to come to an end? So the Young Man undoubtedly thought; otherwise he would have given away all his money and let them feed upon his flesh.

‡ Five.

§ Probably they didn’t.

‖ Why should I give the enemy anything?

a In April 1987, I read with great pleasure that Pakistan had shot down a plane of the “Afghan” Air Force over this terrain, not far, said the paper, from Parachinar. The plane had violated Pakistani airspace a day or two after two other bombings by “Afghan” planes which had killed about a hundred people.

b “Then we have the problem of the journalists going inside Afghanistan. Even if they can smuggle [themselves] out the Pakistan checkpoints, it is difficult for them to walk for several days and weeks in the mountain terrain of the country. Moreover, danger awaits them in every step they take. Very few exceptional journalists can work under such conditions. Most of those who go inside limit their trips to areas near the border and write superficial reports.” — Mirror of Jehad: The Voice of the Afghan Mujahideen (Jamiat-i-Islami publication), January — February 1982.

c This portion of Poor Man’s statement was translated by a different person than the other, which explains the syntactical differences. For more information on the use of C.B.W. agents in Afghanistan, see the Haig Report cited in the Sources section at the end of this book.

d Philosophical Investigations, IIxi, p. 223e.

e And here I see the slide of the boy who stood on a high green Afghan hillside, pointing at the sun the wooden toy gun that his father had carved for him (had he already crossed the river also, so young?), and his little sister’s hair was falling out in patches from some disease but she wore a necklace of heavy squares of pure silver carved with signs, gladdened with jewels or colored glass beads (how would I ever know which?).

f Airplane.

g Small sweet apricot.

h This may sound like propaganda. It is not. Never have I seen people so serene, yet so full of a great considered purpose.

i The Qur’an in fact states that sick people, travelers and warriors on jihad may break their fast and make it up later. Suleiman, therefore, would have been triply justified in taking the medicine.

j Mr. William is an unbeliever, not a Muslim.

 



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