Re: Who here has been to Paris?


"TPS" <theron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
>
> I've heard of the Muhajadin. (Read a book called "My Jihad", by an
> American guy who joined them. Total whack-job. Sort of like a muslim
> Richard Marcinko.)

That was a wild book. I'm still amazed that an white, English speaking
American would end up traveling through, and fighting in Afghanistan,
Pakistan, and ultimately fighting with the Chenchens.

> But I don't know of Russia specifically targeting OBL. Not saying they
> didn't - I just haven't read up on it. Got any sources?

I just did some cursery checking and didn't run across any of the stories
that I had read that covered that. There were a few interviews with Osama in
which he mentions the Russians looking specifically for him, and a couple of
others that mention attempts to go into Tora Bora for rebel leaders.

"He supported them with weapons and his own
construction equipment. Along with his Iraqi engineer Mohamed Saad - who is
now

building the Port Sudan road - Mr Bin Laden blasted massive tunnels into the

Zazi mountains of Bakhtiar province for guerilla hospitals and arms dumps
and

cut a mujahedin trail across the country to within 15 miles of Kabul.



No I was never afraid of death. As Muslims we belivve that when we die, we
go

to heaven. Before a batttle, God sends us "seqina", tranquility.



Once I was only 30 metres from the Russians and they were trying to capture
me.

http://www.la.utexas.edu/chenry/mena/roles/oil/1998/0085.html





That could easily be someplace like the famously impregnable eastern
Afghanistan cave complex called Tora Bora, built by mujahedin during the
1980s war against the Soviet Union. Russian troops tried three times to take
it and failed. The caves are cut into the jagged, 13,000-ft. peaks of the
Spin Ghar range 35 miles south of Jalalabad. They make an ideal retreat: a
vast honeycomb of tunnels 8 ft. wide, carved 1,150 ft. deep into the
mountain. The warren of entrances, tiny slits in the rock, lead into
ventilated chambers heated and lighted by generators. Best of all, the
bunker is virtually invisible from the sky and untouchable from the ground;
the nearest road ends in a village that is a three-hour walk away in the
valley below. Saif Rakhman, secretary to one of Jalalabad's new militia
commanders, fought the Soviets at Tora Bora. He couldn't stop from laughing
when a reporter asked to visit there. "If you want to sacrifice yourself,"
he said.

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2001/011206-attack03.htm


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