Subject: Re: Wakhan Corridor<br/>
Date: Oct 17, 2001 @ 19:34<br/>
Author: Grant Hutchison (&quot;Grant Hutchison&quot; &lt;granthutchison@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-1823406431">Arif:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; Now what I am saying may be an urban (desert?) legend,<br/>
&gt; but maybe not.<br/>
 </span></blockquote>If it is, I&#39;ve read the same legend - somewhere in Peter Hopkirk&#39;s <br/>
various volumes on the history of Central Asia, he says that the <br/>
Wakhan Corridor was created as a Great Game buffer between Russian <br/>
and British interests.<br/>
<br/>
Grant</div>