21.   Just before the Soviet invasion, one of her brothers, who lives in Canada, writes to say he is coming home for a visit.

22.   Mujahedeen fighters used Egyptian and Chinese versions against Soviet soldiers after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

23.   Moscow had little love for Pakistan, which cooperated with U.S. efforts to funnel assistance to Afghan rebels following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

24.   Now, though, Britain and France are committed to streamlining armed forces originally intended to defend against a Soviet invasion.

25.   Rahim Ullah stayed in Afghanistan through the Soviet invasion and the civil war that followed.

26.   Rukhsana Sarwar, a professor of English at Kabul University in Afghanistan, had survived coups and a Soviet invasion.

27.   That same month, Osama bin Laden came to Afghanistan, where he had supported the war against the Soviet invasion.

28.   The exchanges were cut off only during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

29.   The Russians also have provided intelligence to the U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan, stemming from the decade-long Soviet invasion of that central Asian nation.

30.   The Soviet invasion spawned a tough and ultimately victorious resistance that fought in the name of Islam and became less and less tolerant as the war dragged on.