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Argumenty i Fakty
October 17, 2001
OUR PEOPLE IN AFGHANISTAN
[from WPS Monitoring Agency, www.wps.ru/e_index.html]
Russia's special services have recently started actively encouraging Afghans who wish to return to their homeland. (True, there aren't too many of them. The Afghan diaspora in Russia has fewer than 50,000 people - nothing like 150,000, a figure often quoted in the Russian media.) Those Afghans who wish to regain power in Afghanistan are being trained in the latest partisan warfare methods and modern weapons-handling techniques.
According to our sources within the Afghan diaspora, elite commando units made up of native Afghans are being sent to the rear of the Taliban. Their objective is to help the Northern Alliance take Kabul, while preventing the Americans and British from setting up their own puppet government there under the pretext of fighting terrorism.
However, events in Central Asia might well follow a different scenario. For example, the Pakistani military - in which extremist sympathies are widespread - could, with the help of the ICI intelligence service, topple the pro-American regime of President Musharraf and move into Afghanistan to support the Taliban. Pakistani intelligence trained and armed the Taliban in the first place. In this event, the former Soviet border could be breached; strong detachments could then move north - into the Ferghana Valley, for example, where they would find support from local Islamic fundamentalists.
According to our sources, Russia might deploy some top-secret "tectonic weapons" which were planted in the mountains of Afghanistan before the Soviet troops pulled out. These weapons can create a series of subterranean tremors with vast destructive power; this would make the former Soviet-Afghan border impassable from the south for a long time.
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