Mujahideen

"(Bond, Kara and the Mujahideen arrive to a decimated village with destroyed Soviet equipment)
"It's the work of the Mujahideen."
"Mujahideen?"
"The Afghan resistance."

― Bond explains to Kara who the Mujahideen are

Kamran Shah and his Mujahideen resistance fighters

The Mujahideen (Arab. مجاهدين‎, muǧāhidīn; also romanized as mujahidin or mujahedin) is a term used in connection with Islam, and usually refers to Islamist fighters or Islamist guerrilla groups. Thusly any Islamic resistance fighter- and/or terrorist groups may refer to themselves as Mujahideen.

The term became popular in the West during the Soviet–Afghan War. The various guerrilla groups that fought in Afghanistan from 1979 to 1989 against the Soviet troops and the communist government they supported called themselves mujahideen. They received financial and material support primarily from the United States, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. The arms deliveries and the training of many fighters were organized primarily by the US CIA and the Pakistani secret service ISI. The CIA invested billions of dollars in the Islamist insurgents as part of the covert "Operation Cyclone".

Following the withdrawal of Soviet troops in 1989, disagreements between the various Mujahideen groups would ensue in three civil wars fought in the 1990s.

The Mujahideen play a significant part in the 1987 James Bond movie, The Living Daylights.

History

The Mujahideen lead by Kamran Shah escorting Bond and Kara through a decimated village on their way to Mujahideen hideout.

When James Bond and Kara Milovy and flown to the Soviet Airbase in Afghanistan, they are near-immediately sent to the base's prison. At the prison, there is an is a single enigmatic Afghan man being detained in a cell there.

After Bond overcomes the guards, Bond and Kara try to leave. But the man pleads Bond to release him, with Bond throwing the prison keys to the man. Bond and Kara get out of the base by using a Aircraft Passenger Stair Truck to get over the fence, but right outside, they are ambushed by concealed Mujahideen fighters. The man from the cell orders the men to not hurt them. Bond and Kara are made to join the Mujahideen on their return to their hideout.

At the hideout, the man from the cell reveals himself to be Kamran Shah, the deputy commander of the Eastern District Mujahideen. Bond asks Kamran to provide him with the equipment to stop General Koskov's scheme at the airbase. Kamran is not entirely willing to comply, only allowing Bond to tag along to the vicinity of the base.

Bond, Kara and Kamran's soldiers arrive to meet with the Snow Leopard Brotherhood, where Bond finds out that the latter group is carrying great amounts of raw opium in their red cross bags. Then, Soviet troops arrive and Bond realizes that the Mujahideen are the ones delivering the opium to Koskov. Bond confronts Kamran about this, with the latter saying its the Snow Leopards bringing it, that he does not care what is done with the opium, they desperately need arms.

Kara and Bond then spot Koskov bringing the diamonds (that were hidden amongst a phony heart transplant), with Bond explaining to Karman what Koskov and co. are doing is harming the Mujahideen. Bond proposes that he will sabotage Koskov's delivery of drugs and Karman agrees to bring plastic explosives and a timed detonator for it.

After Bond gets what is needed, he blends in with the Snow Leopards to bring the bags to the Soviet truck. Bond sneaks in the drug and hides amongst the bags to hitch a ride back to the airbase.

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