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Description: ISBN 1860648304 / Author: Ahmed Rashid / Genre: Politics / Society / Philosophy / A look at the fundamentalist Islamic sect based in ... more
Taliban: Islam, Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia - Ahmed Rashid ... Afghanistan.

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 ... supply of heroin until 1989. An immense narcotics trade had developed under the legitimizing umbrella of the CIA-ISI [the Pakistan Intelligence Agency] covert supply line to the Afghan Mujaheddin. … As in Vietnam, where the CIA chose to ignore the trade in drugs by anti-communist guerillas whom the CIA was financing, so in Afghanistan the US chose to ignore the growing collusion between the Mujaheddin, Pakistani drugs traffickers and elements in the military." My enemy's enemy is my friend, you ...more

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Pages: 208, Paperback, I. B. Taurus
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Premium Review Taliban: Islam, Oil and the New Great Game in Central Asia - Ahmed Rashid: Thoroughly Modern Militancy (865 words)
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Like many things that achieve perfection, American foreign policy is, in essence, extremely simple. It is based on the maxim "My enemy's enemy is my friend", and with the aid of that maxim it has achieved perfection in region after region of the world for many years. And its perfection is, of course, the perfection of sheer stupidity. This book is a detailed examination of the latest anti-triumph of American foreign policy, in the power now being enjoyed by a group called the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban - named after the Arabic for "Students of the Qur’an" - have received some publicity in the States recently, all of it, ...  Read the complete review

 

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