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The veteran mountain fighters of Afghanistan's Mujahideen actually
relish the prospect of a US attack, writes David Blair in Peshawar

The garish posters were emblazoned with AK-47 assault rifles and the
slogan "jihad is our existence", exactly matching the mood of the
intense, bearded figures seated beneath them. 

The veteran fighters from Afghanistan's Mujahideen exchanged memories of
their victorious war against the former Soviet Union, fought between
1979 and 1989, with delight.  On one point, they were adamant - any
American soldier entering Afghanistan will share the fate of the Soviet
army and almost every other invading force since Alexander the Great. 

Mountain tribes, who have the art of warfare in their blood, would use
guerrilla tactics against the Americans with the same devastating
effect.  Maulana Inyadullah, who began fighting the Soviet invasion in
1982 at the age of 16, declared that his fellow Afghans actually relish
the prospect of an American attack. 

"War is our best hobby.  The sound of guns firing is like music for us. 
We cannot live without war.  We have no other way except jihad," he
said. 

Veterans of Afghanistan's war against the USSR, when the Mujahideen
fought the invaders with large-scale American backing, can be found on
any street corner in the Pakistani city of Peshawar.  The Afghan
frontier is barely 30 miles away and the city is home to hundreds of
thousands of refugees. 

Yet the most experienced fighters are now engaged in other tasks.  Mr
Inyadullah and his colleagues are based in the office of Jamiat-e-Islam,
one of Pakistan's main fundamentalist parties.  By their own account,
they are training guerrillas for the war inside Indian-controlled
Kashmir.  What they call "India's terrorism" ranks alongside America in
their pantheon of evil. 

But if any American troops set foot in Afghanistan, they will return to
their homeland and join a new jihad against the latest foreign invader. 
They view their erstwhile opponent with genial contempt. 

Mr Inyadullah, 35, said: "The Americans would be easier to defeat than
the Russians.  The Americans lead lavish lives and they are afraid of
death.  We are not afraid of death.  The Americans love Pepsi Cola, we
love death."

By contrast, the former fighters had a wary respect for Russian
soldiers, especially those from the Spetsnazspecial forces.  Ali Amjud,
40, paid tribute to the prowess of the invaders he had fought from the
first to the last day of the 10-year conflict.  "The Russians were very
brave and they were used to mountain warfare.  The Spetsnaz were very
dangerous, they climbed mountains like goats."

On one occasion, Mr Amjud awoke to find his mountainside encampment
under night attack from a Spetsnaz force.  He escaped after six hours of
hand-to-hand fighting.  A few months later, when his group ambushed a
Soviet column in the Noor Pass, he was hit by splinters from a tank
shell and seriously wounded. 

Yet Mr Amjud never had any doubts about final victory.  "All the
weapons, training and technology of the Russians gave way because they
had no purpose in life.  They only fought for a salary.  We fought for
the cause of Islam, because Allah commanded us.  We embraced death, we
were willing to be martyrs," he said. 

Both Mr Amjud and Mr Inyadullah fought with Hezb-e-Islam, a
fundamentalist faction of the Mujahideen led by Gulbaddin Hekmatyr. 
After the Russians were driven out in 1989, they left Afghanistan to
spread the message of jihad, with numerous other veterans. 

With messianic zeal, they proclaim that the greatest terrorists in the
world are the twin forces of Judaism and America.  Yet they are anxious
to make a good impression on a Western visitor.  After talking about
warfare with relish and railing against the evils of the West, they
present a more moderate face. 

"We never fight states or religions," said Mr Inyadullah.  "We only
fight evil.  Christians are the closest people to Muslims and the Koran
says they are noble people.  The American people are Christians and we
have nothing against them.  It is only their government we fight."

Yet the blazing rhetoric and the posters that glorify slaughter make a
deeper impression than the occasional lapse into reassuring words. 

The Telegraph, London

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