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We need to get out of Afghanistan and only run special-ops missions when we get intelligence on locations of insurgents or activity in the Kyber Pass.
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I have not been up the Kyber Pass recently but am itching to get my passport stamped!
The perceived need for strong female role models Alix Mortimer 2009
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September 21st, 2009 at 1:18 pm cue the obligatory ‘Gulf of Kyber Incident’ in 3 . . .
Afghanistan: ‘New Resources Are Not The Crux’ | ATTACKERMAN 2009
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A Lee-Enfield rifle made in Britain, sent to Nepal, used by Nepalese soldiers, then stored and sold off so Nepal's soldiers could have more modern guns; a Garand used in WW2; a hand-forged handgun from the Kyber Pass; a Swiss K-31, with the folded paper bearing its soldier's name still beneath the buttplate.
APED: "the swiss song of conquest" hradzka 2009
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In consequence of the extremely hostile attitude of the Amir, and the very unsatisfactory reply received from General Faiz Mahomed Khan, commanding the Afghan troops in the Kyber Pass, to a letter [4] he had written a few days before, Sir Neville Chamberlain suspected that the advance of the Mission would be opposed, and, in order 'to reduce to
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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I represented that, before operations could be undertaken on so extensive a scale as was proposed, it would be necessary to reinforce the Kabul garrison and the several posts on the Kyber line by:
Forty-one years in India From Subaltern To Commander-In-Chief Frederick Sleigh Roberts
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Sending part of the army by the now famous Kyber Pass toward the Indus, Alexander himself undertook to subdue the mountain tribes and get control of the Chitral passes.
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"Not many nurse-maids in the Kyber Pass," his son observed.
The Dark Tower Phyllis Bottome 1923
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"Now we ascend the Kyber Pass," cried Mrs Farthing gaily, as she set foot on the gangway.
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"Maybe, if the Gimpkes were gunning for you, they could pick you off as you went innocently up this Kyber Pass and you'd never know what hit you nor live to tell the tale; and they so snugly out of sight nobody but you would ever have sighted them," Leigh replied.
Winning the Wilderness Margaret Hill McCarter 1899
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