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Afghan War, 2001- Campaigns Afghan War, 2001- Personal narratives, American Afghan War, 2001- Secret service Afghanistan Politics and government 21st century Grenier, Robert (Robert L.) Intelligence officers United States Biography Pakistan Relations United States Taliban United States Relations Pakistan United States. Central Intelligence Agency BiographyGhafari, Zarifa
Summary: "Zarifa Ghafari was three years old when the Taliban banned girls from schools, and she began her education in secret. She was six when American airstrikes began. She was twenty-four when she became mayor--one of the first female mayors in the country--and first of Wardak, one of the most conservative provinces in Afghanistan. An extremist mob barred her from her office; her male staff walked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2022
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Summary: The First American-Afghan War, a CIA war, was approved by President George W. Bush and directed by the author, Robert Grenier, the CIA station chief in Islamabad. Forging separate alliances with warlords, Taliban dissidents, and Pakistani Intelligence, Grenier launched the “southern campaign,” orchestrating the final defeat of the Taliban and Hamid Karzai’s rise to power in eighty-eight chaotic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2015