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Taliban Foe Ready to Fight
Monday, October 01, 2001
By Robert Novak / Sun-Times columnist

Taking up arms at age 16 against Kabul's pro-Communist regime, Afghan freedom fighter Abdul Haq became a leading commander of mujaheddin forces that drove the 120,000-man Soviet army from the country.

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Renowned Afghan freedom fighter Abdul Haq is ready to slip through the Pakistan border into Afghanistan to organize insurrection against the Taliban regime. Experts see an excellent chance for success -- unless an attack by the Americans intervenes.

In a telephone conversation from Pakistan on Friday, Haq told me he was “coordinating with other commanders” to plan the revolt. He described the Afghan people as “sick and tired” of the Taliban: “There is no food and no freedom. They are beaten and insulted. There is no real support.”
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