Sayyaf was fighting the Hazaras, he said. The Hazaras were fighting Massoud.
“And he's fighting Hekmatyar, of course, who has the support of the Pakistanis.”
“Mortal enemies, those two, Massoud and Hekmatyar. Sayyaf, he's siding with Massoud. And Hekmatyar supports the Hazaras for now.”
As for the unpredictable Uzbek commander Dostum, Rasheed said no one knew where he would stand.
Dostum had fought the Soviets in the 1980s alongside the Mujahideen
but had defected and joined Najibullah's communist puppet regime after the Soviets had left.
He had even earned a medal, presented by Najibullah himself, before defecting once again and returning to the Mujahideen's side.
For the time being, Rasheed said, Dostum was supporting Massoud.
In Kabul, particularly in western Kabul, fires raged, and black palls of smoke mushroomed over snow-clad buildings.
Embassies closed down. Schools collapsed. In hospital waiting rooms, Rasheed said, the wounded were bleeding to death.
In operating rooms, limbs were being amputated without anesthesia.
“But don't worry,” he said. “You're safe with me, my flower, my gul. Anyone tries to harm you, I'll rip out their liver and make them eat it.”
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