One of the problems of training people to fight in foreign wars under the banner of religion is that they sometimes come home. There are an estimated 10,000 mujahedin (mainly Pakistanis) in Pakistan, excluding those who are still fighting in Afghanistan and Kashmir. The Taleban, in neighboring Afghanistan, began in Pakistan; and their austere version of Islam has been supported ever since by Pakistan. There are also hundreds of mujahedin from Libya, Egypt, Yemen, Jordan, Palestine, Algeria and Tunisia based, recruited and trained in Peshawar, and the border regions between Pakistan and Afghanistan. This was all very well when the nasty old Sovs were running around in Afghanistan. In those days turban clad figures ready to do or die for Islam (as long as they killed commies) were positively encouraged by just about everybody. But the Soviets left Afghanistan over a decade ago. The Muj haven't quite got round to leaving, yet. Sorry, they have, but in all the wrong directions. Like, er, Nairobi . . . The inner circle of the mujahedin consists of 300 Egyptians. The regional branch of the Islamic Jihad is directed by Mohammed Shawky Islambuli, brother of the assassin of President Anar el-Sadat.
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