Early video clip from Jelaluddin's Mujahideen perhaps

[Catya Sher]

This 5 minute clip was taken in 1981.

Probably these are Zadran fighters under Maulavi Jelaluddin in the mountains of Paktia, as the photographer traveled with them extensively.
[He did visit other groups as well, I was just reading in a book yesterday
So without a precise label, it is not certain who they are.]

This short clip gives a flavor of what the early years of that fight were like.

AFGHANISTAN

[Catya Sher]

Well you could say the Taliban are the spiritual and sometimes lineal descendants of those Mujahideen who took up arms against the Red Army's invasion late December 1979 [an unlucky year].Some like Jelaluddin and others began their fight against the Communist Kabul govt. earlier.

It was tough: look at the weapons they had to transport up steep mountains to get a , vantage point to fire at the Soviet helicopters, a true menace. In the beginning, as can be realized here, the Pashtun tribesmen were not familiar with many of the weapons that fell into their hand

There was a learning curve.
Once they learned how, they could fire any weapon skilfully.

[Catya Sher]

Your info is silly.
You are so obsessed with "saudi Arabia"
that you tie everyone in there.

She is a Kuwaiti.
She saw him on TV and immediately loved him. Sent a message asking if he would marry her.
He said OK.

So -it was not he- but she - who initiated that apparently happy match.
The rest of the post by Mr MiG The Soviet Aircraft [6 looks like a G in this font] is even more absurd.

You may be envious that you weren't an Afghan War Hero ?