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| | Blundering Into Afghanistan - The Great Game has repeatedly foiled the great powers. By David Greenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07) |
 | | Dost Mohammed, however, insisted that the British help him in his jihad to recapture Peshawar, in the East, which had fallen to the Sikhs. |
 | | Back in Kabul, Shujah was assassinated and Dost Mohammed restored to the throne for 20 years. |
 | | In what Hopkirk calls "a rare stroke of imagination," British leaders placed on the throne Abdur Rahman, a grandson of Dost Mohammed with ties to Russia—appeasing the Russians, the British themselves, and the Afghans, who considered him one of their own. |
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