The Michigan Daily-Friday, July 11, 1980-Page 5 REBELS NOW 20 MILES FROM KABUL Afghans ready to attack KABUL, Afghanistan (AP)-Afghan rebels were waiting for signals from- rebels have set up camps less than 20 their colleagues to.launch massive at- miles outside Kabul as bases for at- tacks on all Russian bases in the coun- tacks on Soviet troop installations, but try. witnesses say the rebels are short of Between 600 and 700 Moslem rebel vital weapons. Mujahideen-freedom fighters-dan- The rebels have well-organized ced and joked at Lalandar one night communications with bases elsewhere early this week, in high spirits because in the country and with supporters of successes against the Russians, the operating in Kabul, according to wit- witness said. nesses who have visited two camps less In the last two weeks, the rebels than an hour's drive from this mile-high claimed they killed 25 to 30 Russian capital. soldiers in a 22-mile-long valley bet- AT THE CAMP in Lalandar, about 15 ween two mountains, stretching farther miles south of the Russian-occupied south into Paktya Province. Darulaman air base on Kabul's INFORMED SOURCES SAID the southern outskirts, a witness said, the rebel groups are fighting more effec- American hostage to gain free do-m after 250 days. -in Iran tively now than at any time since the Russian intervention last December because thousands of soldiers who have defected from the regular Afghan army are giving the rebels the latest model Russian-made small arms and badly needed military training. The mass desertions, which have depleted the regular Afghan army from its normal strength of about 80,000 to an estimated 30,000, included field-grade Soviet-trained officers who are training the Mujahideen in tactics and weapons use. The rebels, mostly Kabul University graduates-supporters of fundamen- talist Moslem leader Gulbuddin Hek-1 matyar-said their greatest obstacle in the fight against the Russians is the lack of anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons. The witness said they were armed with old rifles, some new Soviet Kalashnikov rifles and some Papashas captured from the Afghan Army. IN RECENT WEEKS, the Moslem rebels have claimed they shot down dozens of Soviet helicopter gunships and at least one Antonov transport plane in Panjsher, about 45 miles north of Kabul. Most observers consider the rebel Soviets claims somewhat exaggerated, but they do believe the insurgents have acquired some aiti-aircraft weapons from outside sources which have been used successfully. Still, well-informed sources said the rebels are no match for the Soviet military because they lack quantities of anti-tank and anti-aircraft weapons. One witness said the rebels at Lalan- dar kept asking why the Americans and other rich western nations that have condemned the Soviet action are not supplying the rebels with the weapons they need. Rebel leader Sayid Ahmad Gailani visited three European cities-London, Bonn and Strasbourgh, France-this week appealing for the critical weapons. He asserted the rebels control 80 per cent of the countryside, and that the Soviets are "on the point of being swept away by the resistance movement." The rebels are not nearly as well organized in their command structure, as the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese were during the Vietnam War, but the Moslem rebel groups have managed to expand their activities from the Pakistan border areas to the heart of the city in a few months. (continued from Page 1) President Carter, in Alaska on his way home from Japan, said at Elmen- dorf Air Force Base in Anchorage said, "We don't yet have a confirmation of this report. If it is true and if the young man is well after adequate treatment, of course, we will be very thankful." 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