Word: mujahedeen
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...capabilities may have been overestimated. U.S. and Pakistan-backed efforts to organize a "southern alliance" to fight the Taliban in its own Pashtun heartland in the south have not yet yielded much fruit, and suffered a setback Friday with the reported execution of a key anti-Taliban moderate mujahedeen commander...
...made the job of the U.S. special forces and their British counterparts that much more difficult. Still, a number of reports from the frontlines suggest some significant success in deploying these forces as target spotters for U.S. aircraft. Some 20 militants of Pakistan's pro-Bin Laden Harkat al-Mujahedeen meeting in a house in Kabul were killed in a U.S. bombing raid this week after the venue was reportedly pointed out from the ground...
...probably around 100. But irrespective of the numbers, the reality staring us in the face was a whole village razed to the ground only because it was mistaken for an Osama bin Laden training camp or a Taliban ammunition depot. Khrum's location in the Torghar, where the Afghan mujahedeen had established several bases while fighting the Soviet occupation, brought about its misfortune. Villagers claimed these camps were no longer operational but obviously the Americans think otherwise - hence the repeated air strikes...
...Qaida's links with Southeast Asia originate, like Al Qaida itself, in the Afghan war. Afghanistan's jihad against the Soviet invaders drew Islamic radicals from all over the world to Western Pakistan, where they were armed, trained and organized to fight alongside the Afghan mujahedeen warriors. A handful of those volunteers came from distant Malaysia and the Philippines. Many of the international volunteers for the Afghan jihad later formed the basis of Osama Bin Laden's Al Qaida network, and some of its earliest supporters came from Southeast Asia...
...Malaysia, local self-styled "mujahedeen" groups remain small but nonetheless worrisome, particularly because of their suspected links with the country's largest opposition party. While the government of Mahathir Mohammed supports the U.S. anti-terror effort - though not the bombing in Afghanistan - the opposition responded by calling for jihad against the U.S. Mahathir is not in any immediate danger, but as a long-time denouncer of the U.S. himself, he can't be seen to be too supportive...