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icarus · 09-05-2006, 08:31 AM

Well yes to be technical there were large areas in the north held by druglords (there was no Northern Alliance as such until the US-led invasion). Today there still are vast areas controlled by the same druglords.

I assumed it went without saying that modern Afghanistan referred to those areas under influence of Kabul and the government seated there, which consists of the major centres of the country--Jalalabad, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif, Kandahar. Anyway, I'm not sure what trying to downplay the Taliban government is meant to achieve in this discussion.

As for the Soviets being invited into Afghanistan in the late 1970s, they were invited by a communist Soviet-puppet government that had seized power in a bloody coup d'etat. This seems to have been excluded from the Wikipedia article.

09-05-2006, 08:31 AM	#32
icarus Franchise Player Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Singapore Exp:	Well yes to be technical there were large areas in the north held by druglords (there was no Northern Alliance as such until the US-led invasion). Today there still are vast areas controlled by the same druglords. I assumed it went without saying that modern Afghanistan referred to those areas under influence of Kabul and the government seated there, which consists of the major centres of the country--Jalalabad, Herat, Mazar-i-Sharif, Kandahar. Anyway, I'm not sure what trying to downplay the Taliban government is meant to achieve in this discussion. As for the Soviets being invited into Afghanistan in the late 1970s, they were invited by a communist Soviet-puppet government that had seized power in a bloody coup d'etat. This seems to have been excluded from the Wikipedia article. __________________ Shot down in Flames!