1
He espoused none of the anti-American rhetoric of the Muslim Brotherhood-influenced Afghan guerrillas often favored by Pakistani intelligence.
2
The Central Electoral Commission even promised to deliver ballot papers to a group of Russian pilots being held hostage by Afghan guerrillas.
3
The former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in 1979, pulling out a decade later after losing thousands of troops fighting mostly Western-backed Afghan guerrillas.
4
Militants flocked to Waziristan and other parts of the Afghan -Pakistani border in the 1980s to support Afghan guerrillas fighting Soviet troops in Afghanistan.