The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

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CHAPTER 7 Afghanistan CHAPTER 7 DOCUMENTS Overview 565 Part I: Soviet Intervention and the Rise of the Taliban, 1979–2001 Soviet ...

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CHAPTER 7 Overview D uring the last two decades of the twentieth century, Afghanistan certainly would have appeared on any list ...

The 1973 coup that send Zahir Shah into exile in Italy proved to be the begin- ning of Afghanistan’s most recent descent into tr ...

off. Many of these guerrillas were radical Islamists who accepted the outside aid as a matter of expediency and later turned on ...

ever: bin Laden and top al-Qaida and Taliban officials, along with many of their fight- ers, escaped into the mountains of easte ...

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT Afghanistan’s role in the closing chapters of the cold war began in July 1973 ...

panied by public warnings from the White House against direct Soviet intervention on behalf of the Kabul government. In mid-Sept ...

concerned because their interests “are not affected in any way by the events in Afghanistan” (Iranian Hostage Crisis, p. 383). C ...

since shortly after the April 1978 coup. Seeking to defend their homeland against the foreign invaders, thousands more Afghans f ...

casting a shadow on the activities of Soviet personnel in Afghanistan, who had been restricted in their efforts to maintain cont ...

with the provisions of the Soviet-Afghan treaty of 1978, a decision has been made to send the necessary contingent of the Soviet ...

DOCUMENT Carter Address on the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan JANUARY4, 1980 I come to you this evening to discuss the extremely ...

maintain their dominance over Afghanistan and then extend their control to adjacent countries, the stable, strategic, and peacef ...

After consultation with other principal grain-exporting nations, I am confident that they will not replace these quantities of g ...

A revolution took place there in April 1978. The Afghan people took their des- tiny into their hands and embarked on the road of ...

It is deliberately and unscrupulously that the imperialist and also the Peking prop- aganda distort the Soviet Union’s role in A ...

the United States and in NATO would have surely found another pretext to aggra- vate the situation in the world.... SOURCE: “Isl ...

Peshawar, across the border in Pakistan. These commanders and political groups shared the goal of ousting the Soviet Union and t ...