I wrote RAWA, the Revolutionary Association of Afghan Women, if they still felt that the Northern Alliance was just the same as the Taliban (as they had written in earlier communications).

In our opinion there is no difference between Taliban and Northern Alliance. Both are criminal and anti-democratic forces to the marrow of their bone.

Please note that one of the forgotten aspects of the Afghan catastrophe is the role of Rabbani-Masoud & Co (Northern Alliance also called Jehadis) in destroying and looting the country and the death and destitution they brought with them after the fall of the pro-Soviet puppet regime. More importantly hundreds of girls, women and even young boys were raped and a
great number of girls committed suicide lest be assaulted by the barbaric Jehadis (Northern Alliance) henchmen. Most of anti-women rules and measures to deprive, suppress and insult them were taken when these Jehadi murderers came to power till 1996 when their brethren-in-creed-Taliban replaced them.
One of Mr.Masoud important ally Rasul Sayyof had stated that Kabul and its citizens were "sin full" and have the color of the "communists" and therefore they should be totally destructed. Cinemas, theaters and other entertainments were banned; compulsory veil for women was announced. And women and school girls couldn't dare to go out due to immanent danger from
the Jehadi gunmen and thus educational institutions and many offices were boycotted by females.

Please take a look at some of the reports of those horrible years on our site to get a wider idea about the matter. [These are available at ]

Of course after they (Rabbani-Masoud & Co) lost to the Taliban --who were once praised by Masoud as "our beloved Islamic brothers"-they started to talk about "democracy", "human rights" and even "women rights" just to pose as very "enlightened", "moderate" and "democracy loving" rivals of the Taliban in order to solicit support from the West, a play they are continuing successfully.

The UN unilateral sanctions and the recent approach of the UE [European Union] and the US to the Northern Alliance are nothing but another sinister design to perpetuate the dirty domination of the fundamentalists on Afghanistan. The Jehadis are more evil-minded and treacherous than the Taliban. The only difference is that the former are deceitful enough to conceal their real agenda and face and the latter as the prevailing power don't need much to hide their policies in this regard. However, both are birds of a feather.

As many in Afghanistan say Masoud was a mini-Khomeni dressed in pants & shirts! The NA [Northern Alliance] inter alia is being assisted and consulted by the agents of the Iranian regime.

You asked about our statement on the current situation. You may find the statement on this link: www.rawa.org/ny-attack.htm.

Thanks again for your interest and looking forward to hearing from you again
very soon.

Warmest regards,
Mehmooda