you know it is more jedi and captors gave him the muslim name of nicam and that he reluctantly takes his six year old son to this hill on the outskirts of conducing where the remnants of soviet tanks can be found scattered all over the site. i still have vivid memories of those events even though twenty years have passed i saw our tanks and soldiers being blown up but i couldn't do anything about it i was being held prisoner. on that ill fated day in one thousand nine hundred three you know he left his unit without permission. he claims he was drunk and simply wanted to see people praying in the local mosque suddenly the musher dean overpowered him and put a bag over his head. they hit me over the head and knocked me unconscious but nonetheless i have lived a full life here for thirty years. the soviet war in afghanistan lasted for ten years the u.s.s.r. had brought a communist regime to power and then provided it with economic and military aid to support resulted in nearly fifteen thousand soviet soldiers dead some fifty thousand wounded with more than three hundred missing and assu