Islam at War: A History

190 ISLAM AT WAR 22 in the Sush-Dezful area and lasted a week. Iran deployed 40,000– 50,000 troops and 30,000 Revolutionary Guar ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 191 ineffective. The Pasdaran and Basij, being little more than untrained mi- litia, were generally slaught ...

192 ISLAM AT WAR attack that took Mehran, in Iran, which the Iraqis then offered in exchange for Faw, but Iran refused. Througho ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 193 of modern weaponry and even performed much of the equipment main- tenance, were gone. The Shah had most ...

194 ISLAM AT WAR that would stir up the Muslim population in those portions of the Soviet Union that bordered on Afghanistan. Wh ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 195 Islamic warriors. If they died fighting an infidel, which definitely included the atheistic Soviets, th ...

196 ISLAM AT WAR children died, if a Soviet soldier could be killed. Vovsi perceived that the Afghans saw it as an obligation im ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 197 were still a critical element in the mind of the Afghan warrior one hundred years later. The situation ...

198 ISLAM AT WAR presence in the Indian Ocean. Marines landed next and were slowly re- inforced by regular army divisions. While ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 199 The city was garrisoned by a battalion of the Saudi National Guard and a Qatari tank battalion, and sup ...

200 ISLAM AT WAR In a mad rush to escape, thousands of enemy soldiers were massacred by concentrated air attacks on the “Highway ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 201 laurels of victory had passed to the Northern Alliance. Each Northern Alliance step toward Kabul as it ...

202 ISLAM AT WAR in the Afghan heart. Aside from the border issues—the Pakistan border cuts off many ethnic Pushtuns from their ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 203 backwardness mirrored by their societies. In the Balkan War of 1912–13, the Bulgarians, who were about ...

204 ISLAM AT WAR air support. However, the overwhelming reason for their success was their reliance on guerrilla tactics and a m ...

MULLAHS AND MISSILES 205 decisively deficient in these commodities. The military tradition that once produced such ferocious war ...

1980 Iraq attacks Iran. Fighting continues into 1988. 1991 Gulf War: United Nations forces remove Iraqi forces from Kuwait. 2001 ...

Chapter 12 ISLAM AND JIHAD: FOR IT IS ORDAINED UNTO YOU Now when ye meet in battle those who disbelieve, then it is smiting of n ...

208 ISLAM AT WAR However, without Islam it is unlikely that the conquests of Syria and Iraq would have occurred. Without Islam a ...

ISLAM AND JIHAD 209 the culture in which it exists, it is not surprising that Allah revealed his will to Muhammad using words an ...