that they will have to combat. The main problem that they will be facing in Fallujah is guerilla warfare. This includes everything from IEDs to mujahideen soldiers popping out and firing upon the Americans as they are on patrol. The biggest problem and leading cause of death in the War in Iraq was IEDs. They were usually any explosives that the mujahideen could get their hands on with a detonator and planted on the side of the road. However they also got creative and used bicycles‚ cars‚ or people
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the Mujahideen – a guerrilla force on a holy mission for Allah. The Mujahideen declared a jihad - a holy war - on the supporters of Amin to destroy his government. This was also extended to the Russians who were now in Afghanistan trying to maintain the power of the Amin government. The Russians claimed that they had been invited in by the Amin government and that they were not invading the country. They asserted that their task was to support a legitimate government and that the Mujahideen were
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and drugs from the Golden Crescent. The state and its Inter-Services Intelligence‚ in alliance with the CIA‚ encouraged the "mujahideen" to fight a proxy war against the Soviet Union. Most of the mujahideen were never disarmed after the war and some of these groups were later activated at the behest of the state in the form of the Lashkar-e-Taiba‚ the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and others like the Taliban who were all encouraged to achieve Pakistan’s agenda in the Kashmir conflict[4] and Afghanistan[5]
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Paragraph: During the time of the Cold War the Soviet Union were making advancements and trying extremely hard to beat the U.S and still trying to spread communism all over Eastern Europe. In Afghanistan there was an Holy War going on between the Mujahideen (Muslims wanting to overthrow the government) and the Amin government (1). The Amin government was for communism‚ which is where the Soviet Union would come in (1). The Soviets would join the war to help the Amin government maintain their power
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including 400 officers and firefighters‚ America was under attack. Although Bin Laden didn’t personally attacked the US‚ he organized and finalize the Mujahideen‚ was the founder of al-Qaeda‚ and played the role as the mastermind of the 9/11 tragedy. Bin Laden studied at the University in Saudi Arabia until 1979‚ when he became apart of Mujahideen. Being born into a wealthy family allowed him contribute to the force. His funds went to smuggling arms‚ money‚ and
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Usama bin Laden and His Selection Of Terrorism Usama bin Laden‚ born in 1957‚ comes from a wealthy Saudi Arabian family that owns a multinational construction business. He used his inherited wealth to finance Afghan forces fighting the Soviet Union ’s occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980 ’s. After the 1991 Gulf War‚ he was distressed that Saudi Arabia allowed U.S. forces to remain in the Arabian Peninsula. To advance his agenda of expelling the U.S. from the Islamic world‚ he worked with
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Afghanistan‚ which the Soviet Army had invaded in 1979. Islamic mujahideen guerrillas were covertly supported and trained‚ and backed in their jihad against the occupying Soviets by the CIA. The agency sent billions of dollars in military aid to the guerrillas‚ in what came to be known as "Charlie Wilson ’s War". One of the CIA ’s longest and most expensive covert operations was the supplying of billions of dollars in arms to the Afghan mujahideen militants. The CIA provided assistance to the fundamentalist
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The US and its NATO allies which were engaged in a bitter the Cold War with the then Soviet Union decided to use Pakistan as a frontline state against their enemy. Prof Munawar Sabir in his scholarly lecture delivered at the Superior University‚ Lahore‚ exclusively for the CSS students preparing for interview on ‘Geo-strategic importance of Pakistan’. He highlighted the geo-strategic importance of Pakistan by discussing Pakistan’s relations with its neighbouring countries and the major powers
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Farid is a symbol of afghan patriotism due to his affiliation with the Mujahideen. Amir explains that Farid was apart of the Jihad (an abbreviation of Mujahideen)‚ “At fourteen‚ he and his father had joined the jihad against the Shorawi” (Hosseini 242). The Mujahideen were a group of muslim guerilla fighters that fought against the Soviet Union during the Afghan-Soviet war. Farid and his father were members of the Mujahideen and took part of the Afghanistan rebellion in 1979. His heroic act of defending
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Between 1747 and 1798 the Durrani rulers established Afghanistan as tribal confederacy. By the middle of the eighteenth century the British had imperial control in India and were looking to expand their empire to the north. The British looked to take control of the territory of Afghanistan to use as a buffer state. By the early twentieth century the world starts to see Afghanistan emerge from its isolation and control from the British empire. As the territory starts to emerge from its isolation it
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