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Afghanistan
presents new surprises. After appearance on the television channel al-Jazeera of
Osama Ben Laden, declared dead by Bush and Musharraf, numerous of analytics and
commentators suddenly and unexpectedly recalled that in the mountains along the
border of Pakistan and Afghanistan live the so-called Khaiber nomad tribes of
the Afghans, who are subordinated to no one, they live independent life, they
cross the boundary, when they want and where they want, and that the number of
people in these tribes exceeds 5 million people. Moreover, more than 90 percent
of local Afghans are armed. According to the data of Pakistani special services,
in arsenal of Khaiber tribes are included heavy mortars, guns, artillery,
variety of small arms, an innumerable number of heavy machine guns and more than
80 complexes of «Stinger».
Analytics and commentators here assumed that tens of thousands of Taliban and
soldiers of «al-Qaeda», their armaments disappeared in nowhere, and so Ben
Laden himself, is found under the patronage of the alliance of the tribes of
local Afghans - Pashtuns, who are united into four large groups. Neither Kabul
nor Islamabad has any control in these territories, with exception of two-three
basic mountain roads and several crossings, which here are numbered not one ten.
In
connection with the appearance on television screens of «resurrecting» Ben
Laden, who stated that the fight against Israel and its supporter USA will be
continued, and by the explanation that more than 5 million uncontrollable armed
Pashtun control significant territories on both sides of boundary in the
mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan, «victory» of USA in Afghanistan
unexpectedly faded away.
It
should be marked that Ben Laden spoiled new-year celebrations of Washington.
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