mujahedin
or mu·ja·hed·din, mu·ja·hi·deen
[moo-jah-he-deen]
- Muslim guerrilla fighters, especially in Afghanistan and Iran.
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What was it Ronald Reagan called the Contras and the Afghan mujahedin?
The mujahedin narrative was much more honest than that of the communists.
The Warlord Who Defines Afghanistan: An Excerpt From Bruce Riedel’s ’What We Won’Bruce Riedel
July 27, 2014
In 1992 Dostum “defected” to the side of the mujahedin and joined in the battle to take Kabul and oust Najibullah.
The Warlord Who Defines Afghanistan: An Excerpt From Bruce Riedel’s ’What We Won’Bruce Riedel
July 27, 2014
In Afghanistan in the 1980s there were no suicide bombers—the mujahedin then did not feel that was a heroic way to fight or die.
Only some 50 or so CIA officers were ever engaged at one time in helping the mujahedin.