Afghan war dead

Michael Pugliese debsian at pacbell.net
Sun Sep 15 09:10:58 PDT 2002


1.5 million killed during the Soviet-Afghan War from '79 -'89 according to Ahmed Rashid in his book on the Taliban. Laary Goodson in, "Afghanistan's Endless War, " says nearly 2 million. Plus the Soviets laid down nearly 30 million landmines, unmarked and unmapped. Michael Pugliese



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