Letter to a Mujahed

LETTER TO A MUJAHED / RADER SIKORSKI

I have received a letter from Afghanistan, addressed in Arabic to Mr. Rahim —my name among the Afghans. The note did not reach me by ordinary mail: it was carried for weeks over the same mountains and deserts that I had once crossed to reach its author, Ismael Khan, the chief mujahedin commander in western Afghanistan. Since no messenger is likely to get through in the middle of an Afghan winter, I reply to him here. My words may reach him sooner that way.

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LETTER TO A MUJAHED / RADER SIKORSKI

I have received a letter from Afghanistan, addressed in Arabic to Mr. Rahim —my name among the Afghans. The note did not reach me by ordinary mail: it was carried for weeks over the same mountains and deserts that I had once crossed to reach its author, Ismael Khan, the chief mujahedin commander in western Afghanistan. Since no messenger is likely to get through in the middle of an Afghan winter, I reply to him here. My words may reach him sooner that way.