[One_Upmanship]

[SunkenCiv]

The Afghan government is dominated by former mujahedeen guerrillas; both the minister of defense and the army chief of staff are former anti-Soviet insurgents. Most ANA generals and colonels appointed to serve just below them, however, are veterans of the Soviet-built Afghan military that hunted these insurgents through the 1980s.

Politics make strangebedfellows, and its even stranger when it happens in a Moslem country -- has to do with the raw materials... Thanks One_Upmanship.