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By: Eric MargoliseBook Publisher: Taylor & Francis
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| Title of eBook: War at the Top of the World | |
| Release Date: 03-06-2001 | |
| Publisher: Routledge |
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War at the Top of the World
Chapter One
Soldiers of Allah
Oh, Lord Shiva, save us from the claw of the tiger, the fang of the cobra,
and the vengeance of the Afghan.
Old Hindu Prayer
Speak not of those who are slain in the way of God as
dead; for they are alive.
Holy Koran
JALALABAD, AFGHANISTAN, May 1992
The first 107mm rocket arced across a flat, arid plain of scrub and rock toward the enemy position, a high, flat-topped hill, about half a mile (1 km) distant from where we stood. The rocket's fiery backblast produced a cloud of swirling black smoke and a thunderous roar that seemed to advertise our exposed position to everyone within the great amphitheater-shaped valley surrounding the besieged city of Jalalabad.
The missile hit the Communist position at its center. First came an elongated puff of gray-black smoke. Then, a few seconds later, there was a loud explosion whose deep roar echoed off the dark mountains towering over the Jalalabad plain. It seemed to me a good time to take cover, but our leader, the venerable Hadji Ajab, and his nine men continued to stand proudly upright, and in full view of the enemy position, unconcerned that we offered a splendid target to the now aroused Communist garrison.
Curiously, the enemy remained silent. Hadji Ajab suggested in strongly flavored Pushtun that the Communist dogs were too frightened o
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