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DomKen -> RE: Afghanistan in the 80's vs Libya now (9/6/2011 5:53:26 AM)
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ORIGINAL: tweakabelle
The mujhadeen in Afghanistan were a coalition of groups that included political parties, the Taliban, the Northern Alliance, innumerable local and regional warlords (eg Dostrum, Hekematyer) and cut across all religions and ethnicities. I didn't find anything in wiki to suggest Omar wasn't Afghani,( though in truth I only skimmed it). AFAIK, he was a village mullah before rising to prominence in the Taliban
There were small but significant groups of Arabs and Pakistanis, most of whom fought as a subset of the Taliban. It is simply misleading to over-emphasise the numbers of foreign fighters, or the extent of their influence. OBL is probably the most significant exception here..
The Taliban, proper noun, did not exist until better than a decade after the Soviet's left Afghanistan. Omar is a Pakistani ISS agent, note the only consistent description is an eye patch.
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The mujhadeen were primarily a nationalist coalition dedicated to getting rid of the Russians. After the Russians left, they splintered and fought among themselves on multiple levels, in much the same way as Afghans have always done. From this fight, the Taliban emerged as a dominant force but not even the Taliban ever controlled the entirety of Afghanistan.
I have never heard any knowledgeable one query their nationalist agenda or the fact that the mujhadeen were overwhelmingly Afghani nationals.
Then you know nothing of the facts. The muhajeddin leaders couldn't put together a post occupation government in large part because their leaders weren't Afghans.
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