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Sunday, March 17, 2013

The Soviet army lost in 1980 found in Afghanistan

Russia's army with uniforms lined up during practice ahead of the historic victory parade in may in the city of South Russia, Rostov-on-Don, Tuesday (26/4). Russia will commemorate the 1945 victory over Nazi Germany on May 9. (REUTERS/Vladimir Konstantinov)

... Khakimov now known named Sheikh Abdullah and work as a spiritual counselor ... "
Moscow (AFP)-a soldier of the Soviet Union from Uzbekistan, who disappeared in 1991 while on duty in the Red Army in the war in Afghanistan, was found living in the western part of the country that for three decades of turbulent.

Bakhretdin Khakimov lived in Herat, Afghanistan, from wounds suffered there in charge in September 1980, said the organization supports veterans, who found it.

"Khakimov now known named Sheikh Abdullah and worked as a quack," said Alexander Lavrentyev, organization of Warriors-Internationalists Affairs Committee cited news agency RIA Novosti.

He said previous attempts to arrange a meeting with him through three failed opportunity.

On 23 February, local residents managed to bring him to town for a meeting. He called himself Sheikh Abdullah but before he named Bakhretdin Khakimov from city of Samarkand, Uzbekistan, "said Lavrentyev.

He said his wife had been married but Khakimov died. He had no documents and almost never speaks in a language he understands Russia eraric that language, said Lavrentyev.

According to the RIA Novosti news agency there were still 260 Soviet troops missing in Afghanistan had predicted and that veterans groups intend to seek until the fate of all the troops in mind.

(H-RN/B002)



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