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radio four here's Kate Aide. Good morning. Today we're at the funeral of Bohane Rabini reflecting on the return to prominence of

Afghanistan's warlords.

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Afghanistan yesterday buried one of its most prominent leaders of the last 30 years.

Burhanidin Rabani was an Islamic scholar. prominent leaders of the last 30 years.

Burhanidine Rabani was an Islamic scholar,

and one of the most influential figures in the Mujahideen

guerrillas who defeated Russian forces in the 1980s.

But as David Loyne, who's in Kabul says not everyone saw him as a hero.

In a city where the past so often jostles with the present, the hilltop burial site of

Bahanodin Rabani is peopled with ghosts from failed foreign interventions.

It was from here that Afghan soldiers began their assault on the British fort below in the winter of 1841, forcing an army out of

Kabul, a defeat that cost 16,000 lives. That hill is home as well to the

ruins of an open-air swimming pool built by the Russians in the 1980s.

At the funeral, veteran warlords from the guerrilla war against Russia lined up to salute their

founding father, close to the incongruous landmark of the war-damaged diving board.

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