11.   Involving Muslim allies like Turkey and Pakistan in efforts to strengthen the Afghan resistance can also help sustain the international coalition against terrorism.

12.   Khalilzad also spoke with a few other Afghan resistance officials who called from satellite phones inside Afghanistan, a US official said.

13.   Less than a decade ago, Washington saw Pakistan as a front-line cold-war ally and staging ground for American aid to the anti-Communist Afghan resistance.

14.   Like thousands of young Arabs, he joined in spirit with the Afghan resistance, in outrage at the invasion as a violation of Islamic territory.

15.   No amount of money or moral support could keep the veterans of the Afghan resistance from killing one another after the fall of Kabul.

16.   Over the next few years, several thousand young Arab men joined the Afghan resistance.

17.   Some of the bombers got their weapons training in the CIA-backed Afghan resistance.

18.   Some intelligence officials say the last secrets of the trade center case may lie in Peshawar, in the murky world of Muslim extremists and Afghan resistance fighters.

19.   The Afghan resistance groups were to do the main fighting on the ground.

20.   The Americans and Saudis financed the Afghan resistance through Pakistani intermediaries, who sometimes found synergy between the heroin and weapons trades.