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Back to Battle Afghan Commander Says He Can Defeat the Taliban
Friday, October 5, 2001
By Bob Woodruff / ABCNews.com

Former Mujahideen Cmdr. Abdul Haq, one of the most prominent commanders fighting the Soviet Union in the 1980s, during an interview in Peshawar, Oct. 4.
Photo Credit: Zainal Abd Halim -- Reuters.

"They don't give people rights. There's no human rights, there's no job, there's no food, there's no medicine, there's no activity and the only people that have rights is Talib."

PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- ABCNews.com
In the 1980s when Afghans were fighting to push the Soviets out of their country, Abdul Haq was one of the heroes.

A commander of the Kabul front, he led his Mujahideen fighters in the first attacks on the Soviet-held capital.

Today, at age 43, he is a big man with a gray beard and 16 war wounds, including a missing foot, blown off by a Soviet land mine.

"I stepped on it because I was in the frontline," he said. "There was this tremendous explosion, no pain, and I didn't know what had happened until I saw my boot flying through the air with my leg in it."
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* Abdul Haq: In the Loop
CNN interview with Abdul Haq.
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Dan