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  • noun a military force of Muslim guerilla warriors engaged in a jihad

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  • In 1980, Sad-dam, not then assuming a religious pose, said: Those are the ones whom Khomeini calls mujahadin.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • In 1980, Sad-dam, not then assuming a religious pose, said: Those are the ones whom Khomeini calls mujahadin.

    The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004

  • I have not trusted Karzai since I first learned of him years ago — he was associated with Unocal oil company — he has been affiliated with the mujahadin, with the Taliban, and regardless of his efforts in support of his country, it is apparent that he would hold no loyalty toward America if it benefits him.

    Think Progress » ThinkFast: April 5, 2010 2010

  • The photo of the Afghan mujahadin does not include Gulbuddin Hekmatyar because, contrary to my contention in this post, he did not meet with Ronald Reagan in the White House.

    October « 2008 « Antiwar.com Blog 2008

  • It means that the same people who botched Vietnam, brought us Iran/Contra, armed the Arab mujahadin, and greatly aided in their deification are again directing Federal Policy, from a smoking-room*.

    Rudy Fund-Raising Email Touts Strength, Optimism And His Own Ties To Reagan—2008, Anyone? 2009

  • Lightning might not strike twice in the same place, but if they could only get the other great Western empire to repeat the folly of the Soviets and try to occupy Afghanistan, the same factors which let the mujahadin defeat an advanced Western military machine would allow them to defeat the most feared and respected such military machine.

    You Got To Move | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • HASTINGS: And their fighting us now, some of the mujahadin we trained are the ones we are actually engaged in on a daily basis there.

    CNN Transcript Apr 20, 2009 2009

  • Brzezinski is not only the architect of the mujahadin-led campaign against Russia in Afghanistan in the 1980s, but also, the author of "The Grand Chessboard -- American Primacy and it's Geostrategic Imperatives", the operating theory behind the war on terror which involves massive US intervention in Central Asia to control vital resources, fragment Russia, and surround manufacturing giant, China.

    Putin Walks into a Trap 2008

  • Seven years ago, the U.S. experienced one form of repayment when an offshoot of the mujahadin army which forced the Soviets out of Afghanistan, growing stronger in men, money and material by the day.

    Somali Woes: The Perils of Intervention 2008

  • They don't get used when we refer to Iraq sanctions that killed more than a hundred thousand children "It was worth it," chirped the then-Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, or the invasions that have killed thousands upon thousands of Afghan and Iraqi civilians, or the millions of deaths in the Iraq-Iran conflict back when the US was backing Saddam Hussein, or the proto-Taliban mujahadin supported by the West against the Soviets....

    Archive 2008-04-01 2008

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