The Americans have also captured or killed few foreign fighters in the operations.
Some of it comes from interviews with fighters captured in Afghanistan.
Mages were harder to control than captured fighters; the enemy usually did not even bother to try.
The fighters captured in the tea shop were but a portion of the many who served the Chinese crime-master.
After a week of fighting, the army suffered a major casualties with hundreds of fighters being captured.
Eager to show it has defeated them, his government paraded several hundred captured fighters, some of whom appeared to be children, in a central square.
They also had access to captured British and French fighters to familiarize themselves with their opponent's aircraft.
A Hizbul Islam spokesman claimed that they had captured foreign fighters in the battle.
According to one estimate, of the approximately 1,200 foreign fighters captured in Syria between summer 2003 and summer 2005, 85% were Saudis.
The Air Force has reportedly also used actual captured or purchased Soviet fighters on occasion.