Holy Shit! Civil War in Nepal

[Michael Pugliese]

Doug>...Today's WSJ - generally sensible news pages, not loony editpages -
says the Soviets killed about 1 million Afghans (while losing 15,000
troops). Are these numbers in dispute, or is that a widely accepted
estimate?

   Pg. 13, final paragraph in the chapter of A. Rashid book on the Taliban
from Yale U.Press says 1.5 million killed by the Red Army.

  Wonder what the Selig Harrison book on the Soviet intervention sez?
Harrison blurbed Fred Halliday's IPS booklet, "Soviet Policy in the Arc of
Crisis, " from '79.
Michael Pugliese