Afghanistan with Tariq Ali
The Dig
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Falkestan - A Front Line State
Weapons poured into that country, weapons which were sold to other groups who were in need of weaponry. Falkestan had become, as they used to boast, a front line state in the war against communism and russia. A lot of afgon refugee hod come out in the ten years of the russian occupation, had kids. The kids were being schooled and trained in religious schools in the paston belt of parkestan. And these kids were made ready, once they had graduated from these bizarre schools, to go and fight. There were leban means student. That's what the word means.
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