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To: TigerPaw who wrote (938)	9/8/2003 3:20:23 AM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1112

Re: Russian or Israeli influence over the Taliban was minimal to non-existent. Not according to that Eurasian geopolitics think tank: cc.jyu.fi Here's a fascinating if disturbing picture of Russian-Afghan shenanigans: Message 18022471 As for "Russia's preferred pipeline route was through Russia itself", I'd say forget that oil spin --back in 1979, the USSR invaded Afghanistan big-time... was it because some "oil pipeline" the US planned to build?? NO! It was because in 1979 Afghanistan's Pashtun majority wanted to free itself from the Soviet shackles... Afghanistan wanted --and still wants-- to switch alliances: from Russia to Pakistan, but Russia won't hear of it. So, what happened in the 1990s was basically a change of tactics by Russia: her full-scale invasion of Afghanistan flopped and only exacerbated the Pashtun hostility towards Russian imperialism... Therefore Russia chose to continue the fight through proxies --Tajik proxies, that is. It was a smarter approach since it changed the nature of the conflict: from a "Soviet colonialist" venture to an internecine tug of war between Afghan tribes... Yet, that proxy warfare failed eventually (Massoud ended up controlling the Pansher valley, ie less than 10% of the country)