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Launching the Missile That Made History

Three former mujahedeen recall the day when they started to beat the Soviets

Outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 25 years ago this week, an angry young man named Abdul Wahab Quanat recited his prayers, walked onto a farm field near a Soviet airfield, raised a Stinger missile launcher to his shoulder and shot his way into history.

It was the first time since the Soviet invasion seven years earlier that a mujahedeen fighter had destroyed the most feared weapon in the Soviet arsenal, a Hind attack helicopter. The event panicked the Soviet ranks, changed the course of the war and helped to break up the USSR itself.

Much more to read here:  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204138204576598851109446780.html

Interesting and a good Praxis read.

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