
07-10-2004, 11:39 PM
[quote="Fluffy_Bunny":73763][quote:73763]The Lions Grave: Dispatches from Afghanistan (Jon Lee Anderson , Thomas Dworzak)
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Does that include the First Afghan War when 16,000 Brits marched into Afghanistan & only one came back?[/quote:73763]
No, the Lion reffered to is Ahmed Shah Massoud aka The Lion of the Panjshir,
the northern alliance leader assasinated 9/9/01.
...for a good account of that series of massacres in the First Afghan War,
I recommend "The Great Game" by Peter Hopkirk...ripping yarn par exellence. beer:
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