University Daily Kansan, July 31, 1980 Page 5
Afghanistan
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thought they would be going home again. He said they were so hospitalize to him that he didn't want to stay long in the camp for fear they would insist on giving him resources they could not afford to give.
"One family gave me their last bit of sugar for my tea," he said.
All he said he also visited a rest and recuperation center for guerrillas in Peshawar. He said the guerrillas must about three months fishing in Afghanistan, then crossed the border to rest in Pakistan for two weeks before going back.
Five Islamic factions in Afghanistan have banded together to fight the Soviet Union. One of them is the Alliance for the Liberation of Afghanistan, led by Raul Sayif. Though there are some personal confrontations between the two, they are firmly united in the war effort.
Ali told of an Afghan proverb he heard at the encirclement center about a British soldier and an old Afghan policeman who explained politics in Afghanistan.
The British soldier told the tribesman was tired of the Afghan tribe's bites on the soldiers. Two two dogs that were fighting near a stove had managed to escape the cage and let one of the tables out.
when the rabbit ran by, one dog chased it down and caught it, then the other dog joined in, and together they devoured it.
The tribesman told the soldier, "This doesn't mean I am saying my people are dogs. It's just that we don't have any lions here."
The point was that the Afghans may bicker among themselves, but are united and fierce when fighting outside enemies.
After several days in Peshawar, Al dressed in Afghan clothing, set out for the army to take over a marshaling area for the rebel troops on the border. Al's group met another rebel force who had an American-made rifle but that did not know how to put it together.
All said that because of military experience he'd had years ago, he was able to help the rebels assemble the rifle, a feat that won their respect.
"That evening we slipped across the border." he said.
'The next day we got hit by the Russians. We heard the helicopters coming and took cover as fast as we could. They were using rockets.
"You pray, you lay there, you squench yourself into a fetal position and hope you don't get hit.
"It was unbelievable; no one got hit. But the rebels lost a lot of donkeys."
Though he was unharmed by the attack, Ali lost some of his equipment.
"I had two packs and one of them a brand new 300mm lens, which cost $400. I lost the lens in that attack." he said. "A wickedly good act, notorious."
The guerrillas usually traveled at night to avoid Soviet air attacks. During the day, they slept for three or four hours at a time and then moved to a new location to sleep some more, he said.
Contrain to reports in the U.S. press, the rebels don't use passes through the mountains to travel from Pakistan to Afghanistan. Ali said. Instead, they would over the mountains because the Soviet helicopters constantly patrol the streets.
"I'd heard I would have to walk about 30 miles a day, but I didn't know it would be uphill," he said.
Ali said he lost 30 pounds during the trip.
"I learned a trick, which was to walk with either the very young or the very old," he said. "The guys between 30 and 40 mercy and no money will go too fast for me."
The rebels' destination was a town about 60 miles south of Kabul, the Afghan capital. They arrived there after marching in the darkness more than 150 miles over a period of four and one-half days.
"Then came my trial," Ali said.
"When we reached the rebels' town, I got dysenterv."
Dysentery is an infection of the lower intestines transmitted through contaminated water or food, which is administered by fever, diarrhea and nausea.
"I think the one who played doctor in the 'tribel group was an engineer," he said. "The only drug they had was a pill." Cylindar, who expired two years ago,
"They were giving me tea to chew and all these folk remedies.
"I knew I had to get out of there because I was getting weaker."
The nearby rebel stronghold of Dibuni was the nearest place to get medical attention, so All tried to walk before he was overcome by illness.
"After 15 kilometers I was too weak to go any farther." he said.
The Afghan guides accompanying him took him to the nearby village of Kandhu to rest.
"They treated me like royalty there," he said. "They gave me four hard-buried eggs. I'll never forget those eggs. Of tea and bread it was like heaven."
Ali finally got to Dibonkey on the back of a donkey, where he received an intestinal antiseptic and started to get his strength back.
During an earlier visit to Dibundi, al said he could bear a tank battle going on with his Afghan allies. After some difficulty convincing his Afghan hosts that he was determined to get pictures of the war, Al said he would take him to the scene of the battle.
All said he learned later that five Afghan rebels had been holding up 10 Soviet tanks, but before he and his wife were taken away by the Soviet tank crews called in air strikes.
"We were out in the open coming down a hill and two choppers came over," he said. "They lambasted the daylights out of us. I was wearing a blue pajama outfit and a brown turban and I walked down and tried to look like a rock."
Two of the five rebels who had attacked the tanks were wounded in the helicopter attack, he said. One of them, Hashem Hamsh, had a "sucking chest wound." a non-bleeding wound which caused a collapsed lung. Al said he was taken to his home Hamsh after his mother's home. Ham died four days later.
Khan should not have died. All said. It was the kind of wound that could have been easily attended to by a doctor in a modern army.
"There was a hospital in a town near Kabul, not far away," she said. "But they wouldn't take the wounded there because they said the Russians would anyone brought in with a bullet that the people who brought them in."
Another man who was wounded also died. Ali said.
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"But we made it out in two and one half days over rugged mountains.
Ali's troubles weren't over even after she reached terra firma in Lawrence. Just after arriving, he had a relapse of dysentery. For the last few days he has been carrying around a bottle of pills, and the effect seems worse than the dysentery.
After he began to recover from his dysentery, Ali decided to try to get out of Afghanistan with a rebel who was going to Pakistan.
from KU in 1975 to become a professor of English and linguistics at Kabul University. Popal gave shelter to a U.S. Peace Corps worker in Afghanistan before the Soviet invasion and was subsequently branded as a Western sympathizer and forced to flee the country.
"He's now living in a sub, sub, sub-
rate hotel in one room in Peshawar with his wife, sister and three children," Ali. "I'm trying to help him get a U.S. visa."
"He had a bullet wound in his wrist and an infected foot wound," Ali said.
Ali said he hoped to sell enough of his pictures from Afghanistan to pay back the money he borrowed to make the trip. But for the next few days, he said, "I'll just be breathing deeply and relaxing."
"Toward the end I had blisters on my feet so bad I could not walk, so I hired a camel for 500 Afghan rupees, which is about $10.
The standing people had panicked and were trying to disembark, he said, but the Pakistanis seemed very "laid back" about it.
But doctors have told him he would be well in a few days.
"I rode into Pakistan on a camel. It took eight hours."
Meanwhile he's trying to help a KU graduate he met in Peshawar. The graduate, Obaidullah Popal, graduated
Ali's trials weren't over when he left Afghanistan. The Pakistani International Airlines 747 were flying back on had hydraulic problems, and "seemed to be held together with tape," he said.
"It was the first time I had ever taken off on a 747 with 40 people still standing up."
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