Oh yeah....FREEDOM FIGHTERS.
(We WE were playing the Soviet side.)
"Refugees fleeing the area also reported that the INSURGENTS were blowing bridges and planting mines in Arghandab district, ten miles north-west of the city of Kandahar, as Afghan and NATO troops rushed to seal off the area.
Escaped Taleban prisoners, freed from Kandahar's Sarposa prison during an audacious jailbreak on friday, are believed to be among the INSURGENTS now setting up position in Arghandab's orchards."
:eyes:
Bush has fucked EVERYTHING up.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1094snip>Glowing coverage
The press coverage of this era was overwhelmingly positive, even glowing, with regard to the guerrillas’ conduct in Afghanistan. Their unsavory features were downplayed or omitted altogether. While some newspapers favored some restraint in the degree of U.S. military support for the Mujahiddin (notably the Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post) and others (like the Wall Street Journal) favored a more open-ended policy, these differences were only matters of degree. Virtually all papers favored some amount of U.S. military support; and there was near unanimous agreement that the guerrillas were "heroic," "courageous" and above all "freedom fighters."
To the editors of the centrist New Republic (6/13/83), the Mujahiddin were "fighting the good fight," while an editorial in the Wall Street Journal (12/30/87) celebrated "the heroic struggle waged by the Afghan freedom fighters." According to the L.A. Times (6/23/86): "The Afghan guerrillas have earned the admiration of the American people for their courageous struggle.... The rebels deserve unstinting American political support and, within the limits of prudence, military hardware." <unsnip