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Afghan War, 2001- Personal narratives, American Afghanistan History 1989-2001 Afghanistan History Soviet occupation, 1979-1989 Bin Laden, Osama 1957- Helmand (Afghanistan) Ethnic relations Helmand (Afghanistan) Politics and government Helmand River Valley (Afghanistan) Social life and customs Postwar reconstruction Afghanistan Helmand Taliban History United States. Central Intelligence Agency.Farivar, Masood.
Summary: Massood Farivar draws on his unique experience as a native Afghan, a former mujahideen fighter, and a longtime U.S. resident to provide unprecedented insight into the recent collision between Islam and the West.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 958.104 FARIVAR, MASOOD FARZoya.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2002
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Summary: If you want to understand Afghanistan, writes Carter Malkasian, you need to understand what has happened on the ground, in the villages and countryside that were on the front line. These small places are the heart of the war. Malkasian's War Comes to Garmser promises to be a landmark account of the war in Afghanistan. The author, who spent nearly two years in Garmser, a community in war-torn...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Summary: An account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars which sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and which...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2004