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	Afghanistan Article, Afghanistan Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Between the fall of the Taliban after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the success of the 2003 Loya jirga, Afghanistan was referred to by the West as theTransitional Islamic State of Afghanistan.
		Opposition against, and conflict within, the series of leftist governments that followed was immense, and with the governmentin danger of collapse, the Soviet Union intervened on December 24, 1979.
		Faced with mountinginternational pressure and losses of approximately 15,000 Soviet soldiers as a result of mujahideen opposition trained by the United States, Pakistan, and other foreign governments, the Soviets withdrew ten years later in 1989.
	www.anoca.org /province/country/afghanistan.html (1682 words)

	Afghanistan
		Between the fall of the Taliban after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 Loya jirga, Afghanistan was referred to by the Government of the United States as the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan.
		Faced with mounting international pressure and the loss of approximately 15,000 Soviet soldiers as a result of Mujahideen opposition forces trained by the United States, Pakistan, and other foreign governments, the Soviets withdrew ten years later, in 1989.
		The Soviet withdrawal was seen as an ideological victory in the US, which ostensibly had backed the Mujahideen in order to counter Soviet influence in the vicinity of the oil-rich Persian Gulf.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/a/af/afghanistan.html (6597 words)

	Afghanistan - Facts, Information, and Encyclopedia Reference article
		Between the fall of the Taliban after the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and the 2003 Loya jirga, Afghanistan was referred to by the West as the Transitional Islamic State of Afghanistan.
		In August 1978 the American government commenced funding anti-government mujahideen forces; the Soviet Union invaded on December 24, 1979.
		Faced with mounting international pressure and losses of approximately 15,000 Soviet soldiers as a result of mujahideen opposition trained by the United States, Pakistan, and other foreign governments, the Soviets withdrew ten years later in 1989.
	www.startsurfing.com /encyclopedia/a/f/g/Afghanistan.html (2663 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/U.S. invasion of Afghanistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		During the initial build-up before the actual attack, there had been speculation in the media that the Taliban might try to use U.S.-built Stinger anti-air missiles that were the bane of Soviet helicopters during the Soviet occupation in the 80's.
		The intention of the rebels was to use the region as a base area for launching guerilla attacks and possibly a major offensive in the style of the mujahedin who battled Soviet forces during the 1980s.
		According to Jonathan Steele of The Guardian between 20,000 and 49,600 people may have died of the consequences of the invasion.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Afghanistan_invasion (7940 words)

	Military
		Soviet propaganda (documents, eyewitness reports) re: war in Afghanistan.
		Soviet propaganda (documents, eyewitness reports) re: war in Afganistan.
		Articles: Aerial Invasion of Burma (20 illus.) (H.H. Arnold); Gliders -- Silent Weapons of the Sky (8 illus.) (W.H.Nicholas); Land of Lakes and Volcanoes [Nicaragua] (11 illus.
	www.secondhandprose.com /military.htm (5638 words)

	U.S. invasion of Afghanistan - Voyager, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The officially-stated purpose of the invasion was to target al-Qaeda members, and to punish the Taliban government in Afghanistan which had provided support and haven to al-Qaeda.
		The intention of the rebels was to use the region as a base area for launching guerrilla attacks and possibly a major offensive in the style of the mujahedin who battled Soviet forces during the 1980s.
		According to Marc W. Herold's Dossier on Civilian Victims of United States' Aerial Bombing at least 3700 and probably closer to 5000 civilians were killed as a result of US bombing[6].
	www.voyager.in /U.S._invasion_of_Afghanistan (6652 words)

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		What was terrifying about Soviet power in the cold war was not its mega-tonnage but the incompetence of those controlling it.
		The Soviet Union state was officially atheistic, but with a multitude of religions unoffically (covertly for the most part, no argument here that there was religious persecution) in existence throughout the 50 year history of that regime.
		Other than the world wars (not instigated by Russia) and the Afganistan war (Soviet invasion) I can't think of any other war that the Soviet Union was overtly involved in.
	www.charlierose.com /board/topic.asp?ti=16386&pg=2 (6334 words)

	00military.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Cold War starting with allied invasion of Soviet Union in 1918, for sixteen months after end of WW I
		Soviet invasion of Afganistan - 'CIA worked with Pakistan to create Taliban'
		The War on Islam, the Wisdom Fund - "$500 billion of unnecessary spending went to fight the bogey of Islamic fundamentalism" "exposes the hype about rogue states, Islamic terrorism and human rights used to justify the war on Islam"
	www.globalcircle.net /00military.htm (2445 words)

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