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Article: American troops will face a slew of languages spoken in Afghanistan.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- October 2, 2001
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MONTEREY, Calif. _ American troops entering Afghanistan to try and root out Osama bin Laden and his followers will find a Babel of tongues to contend with along with the leg-killing mountains, thin air and freezing cold that have made the landlocked central Asian country the graveyard of two major European armies in the recent past.
England failed to bring Afghanistan into the British Raj of the 19th and early 20th centuries, and the Russians fought there for 10 years before giving up in 1989.
That same year, 1989, the Defense Language Institute at the Presidio of Monterey dropped Pashto and Dari (Afghan Persian), the principal languages of Afghanistan, ...
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