Al Somood: "Jalaluddin Haqqani, a Legend in the History of the Afghanistan Jihad, Part 3"
The NEFA Foundation has obtained the third part of an article titled, "Jalaluddin Haqqani, a Legend in the History of the Afghanistan Jihad", from Al-Somood, a monthly Islamic magazine published by the Taliban's media center.
The first two installments of this Al Somood series can be vviewed here and here. . As the author explains, "In this third installment, I had intended to move to another stage in the story of that huge leader whose journey I followed from 1979 until the fall of the Communist regime in Kabul in 1992 - had it not been for al-Somood Magazine which in its last edition recounted the story of the martyrs of the current battles against the American-European armies of occupation in that country.
They referred to the story of the martyrdom of one young hero, Mullah Muhammad Amin (‘Ateesh) who was martyred during an American campaign supported by its allied forces against the detainees in the Pol-e Charkhi prison on the outskirts of Kabul...In view of its terrible role in the political history of Afghanistan in the modern era, the Pol-e Charkhi prison deserves to be singled out for its own book." He continued, "We return to the events that were depicted in the beginning of the book ‘Highlights of the First Year'.
I had not intended to deal with them here, because I thought that they were unconnected to what is occurring today. But the incident of the martyrdom of Mullah Muhammad Amin has confirmed that the Soviet experience in Afghanistan has not yet ended. Rather it is continuing, but at the hands of the Americans and under a new name: ‘democracy' (read more)
