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  • Heavily Fortified 'Ant Farms' Deter bin Laden's Pursuers

    11/25/2001 9:05:24 PM PST · by Pokey78 · 97 replies · 590+ views
    The New York Times ^ | 11/26/2001 | MICHAEL WINES
    MOSCOW, Nov. 25 — The Qaeda military base called Zhawar Kili Al- Badr also has a nickname: Wolf's Hole. Zhawar worms its way deep inside the walls of a gorge in the Sodyaki Ghar mountains of eastern Afghanistan, a half-mile lattice of caves and connecting tunnels barely 4,000 yards from the Pakistan border. The Soviet Army took it in 1986 during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, but only after 57 days of aerial bombardment and hand-to-hand combat. "It was seized, blown up. Everything was blown up," Maj. Gen. Aleksandr Lyakhovsky, an Afghanistan veteran now retired from Russian military service, said ...