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Politics : War

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To: Yaacov who wrote (8004)11/4/2001 12:38:49 PM
From: goldsnow  Read Replies (3) of 23908
 
This is just like Batiko Machno and anarchist bands...

washingtonpost.com

Habib, who switched sides Friday, has done so before. He was a top commander with Abdurrashid Dostum, a local warlord now fighting with the Northern Alliance, until Dostum fled to Turkey in 1999. Habib and his men continued fighting in the mountains for about six months, and then, fearing Dostum's enemies within the Northern Alliance, elected to join the Taliban.

"I had to join the Taliban," he said. "My men were starving in the mountains."
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