Marjan was a lion at the Kabul Zoo in Kabul Afghanistan who was maimed in a grenade attack. As the story goes, in 1993 a Mujahideen soldier climbed into Marjan's enclosure to show off and Marjan killed him. Soon after, a friend of the dead soldier threw a grenade at Marjan which cost the lion an eye. Binomial name Panthera leo (Linnaeus, 1758) The Lion (Panthera leo) is a mammal of the family Felidae. ... Kabul (Kâbl, in Persian کابل) is the capital and largest city of Afghanistan with a population variously estimated at 2 to 4 million. ... Mujahideen (مجاهدين; also transliterated as mujāhidīn, mujahedeen, mujahedin, mujahidin, mujaheddin, etc. ...

During the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan Marjan gained some noteriety as a particularly pitiable denizen of the Kabul zoo, the abandonment of which is remeniscent of what occurred in the Kuwait City Zoo during the first Gulf War, where many animals starved to death unattended. In the aftermath of the invasion of Kabul, the zoo animals were seen to by a number of international animal protection and zoological societies. The United States, with support from the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada and the Northern Alliance, invaded Afghanistan in October 2001 as part of its War on Terrorism campaign. ... Kuwait City is the capital of Kuwait and is one of the busiest financial and trade centres in the Gulf . ... C Company, 1st Battalion, The Staffordshire Regiment, 1st UK Armoured Division The 1991 Persian Gulf War was a conflict between Iraq and a coalition force of 34 nations mandated by the United Nations and led by the United States. ...

Marjan died in reasonable health in January of 2002.

Note: Marjan is also a common name in slavic countries, as well as a common female name in the dutch language (though in the latter case, the j is pronounced as a y).