An Afghan resident speaks about Soviet invasion and Taliban

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An Afghanistan resident speaks about the struggle of Afghanistan against Soviet invasion and Taliban. He says, "First of all, it was a foreign aggression on Afghanistan when Afghanistan is a free country, an abundant nation and we had to oppose it and we had to stand against them because it is a duty of every Afghan who is living here to refuse and to oppose those who are stealing their freedom and those who are attacking their soil and the second thing is that we are Muslims. Besides attacking the country their attack was targeted on Islam also they wanted to eliminate the roots of Islam from here. Taliban movement was created by others to commit some bad things against Islam and to give a bad picture of Islam to the world and to fight against the actual freedom fighters those who were de