Post-Taliban Job Retraining

Kerry Howley | August 8, 2005

In the Afghan Hindu Kush, an Italian organization is turning mujahideen into mountain tour guides:

"I have lots of experience in these mountains fighting the Russians," said Commander Rahim Khan, one of the former mujahideen fighters, who handed in his weapons earlier this year.

BBC report here.

Comments

|8.8.05 @ 7:47PM|#

I missed the part where the guy was described as having been in the Taliban, as opposed to, say, the Northern Alliance or some local warlord.

|8.9.05 @ 7:02AM|#

I would hope a course in land mine identification and removal would be on the list.

|8.9.05 @ 9:54AM|#

I wonder how many of these guys are really former Taliban. Sounds like they might be Northern Alliance.