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By January, 1981 both sides were adjusting to the new realities of the conflict. The Soviet army had arrived and it was reorganising itself for a long stay. The presence of this army had guaranteed the scores of guerrilla parties the interest and support of both Afghan and international forces.
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Ali Shah Quyumi, former textiles official, interviewed in Afghan Information Centre (AIC) Bulletin, no. 7, November 1981.
Yussuf Farand, former textiles official interviewed in AIC Bulletin, no. 6, October 1981.
Roger Lewis, ‘The Illicit Traffic in Heroin’, Druglink, Spring 1984.
Yu. Gankovsky (ed.) A History of Afghanistan (Progress, 1985).
Brigadier Arab Khan, defector from DRA air force, interviewed in Afghan Realities, no. 12, April 1982.
Mike Winchester, ‘Night Raiders on Russias Border’, Soldier of Fortune, September 1984.
Nigel Ryan mentions Hezb-e-Islami interference with Massood’s supply trains in ‘A Hitch or Two in Afghanistan’, (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1983).
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Urban, M. (1988). Four: 1981. In: War in Afghanistan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18975-5_5
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