Conflicted: A History Podcast

Ghosts in the Mountains: The Mujahideen Civil War (Part 4)

Oct 19, 2021

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Episode notes

Introduction

2min

The Fallout of the Soviet Afghan War

2min

Ahmed Shah Masoud and Gulbaddin Hekmatyar

3min

The Relationship Between Ahmed Shah Masoud and Ahmed Hekmatyar

3min

Ghosts in the Mountains Part 4: The Mujahideen Civil War

4min

Dr. Najibullah and the Soviet Circle of Trust

5min

The Rise and Fall of the Mujahideen

4min

DNA Testing to the Dixie Mafia

2min

The Importance of Dreams

5min

10.

Hekmatyar's Dream of an Islamist EU

2min

11.

Hekmatyar and Masoud: A Comparison

4min

12.

The Unfathomable Tangle of Short-Term Coalitions and Routine Backstabbing

4min

13.

Masoud's Ass: Prepare to Defend the People of Kabul

2min

14.

Heckmet Yar's Camp in Peshawar, Pakistan

5min

15.

The End of the Afghan Resistance

5min

16.

Hekmatyar's Green Flag Waving Mujahideen in Kabul

2min

17.

The Fall of the Taliban in Kabul

2min

18.

The Unlivable City of Kabul

5min

19.

The Importance of Persistence in Afghanistan

5min

20.

The Unsettling Truth About the Afghan Refugee Camps

2min

21.

The Purpose of a Madrassa

5min

22.

The Taliban's Origins

5min

23.

The Importance of Pakistan in the Taliban Movement

2min

24.

The Taliban and the Anarchy of Afghanistan

5min

25.

Masud's First Meeting With the Taliban

5min

26.

Hekmatyar and the Taliban

4min

27.

The Mujahideen's Retreat From Kabul

2min

28.

The Taliban's Security in Kabul

2min

29.

The Taliban's Last Symbol of Repression

2min

30.

The Last Wall, the Last Obstacle

5min

31.

Bin Laden's Shadow in the Story of the Soviet Afghan War

2min

32.

Bin Laden and Hekmatyar's Relationship

2min

33.

Hekmatyar's Dream of an International Jihad Remained Alive

5min

34.

The Death of Ahmed Shama-Sud

4min

35.

The Unlucky Country of Afghanistan

2min

It’s 1992. The 40th Army is long gone and the Soviet Union has collapsed, but war still rages across Afghanistan. As the Afghan communist regime crumbles, Ahmed Shah Massoud and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar’s forces clash in Kabul. While America turns its back and the Mujahideen turn on each other, new threats arise and threaten to sweep the old generation of freedom fighters away – The Taliban and Osama bin Laden. (Part 4 of Ghosts in the Mountains)

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