afghanistanSibghat Allah Mujadidi and Pir Gailani sent a token force of three hundred
men to join the u.s.-led coalition. The Bush administration was disgusted
at the mujahid’s ingratitude after the cia had armed and supported the
mujahidin during the Soviet occupation. In retaliation, the usa and nato
countries cut military and humanitarian assistance to Rabbani’s govern-
ment, diverting the funds to pay for the war in Iraq and the subsequent
reconstruction programme. By the end of 1994 Afghanistan was yet again
facing economic and political collapse, with both Afghans and foreign
observers seriously wondering whether the country was about to follow
in the footsteps of Yugoslavia and break up into ethnocentric mini-states.