This is probably the definitive work on the history of US involvement in the Afghanistan war against the Soviets and the resulting blowback.Coll begins with the Islamabad riot of 1979, in which thousands of Islamic militants laid waste to the US embassy while Zia was riding about on a bicycle dis...
In this stirring travelogue, a Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter journeys through the tumultuous nations of South Asia--India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, and Afghanistan. This is a land where the 10th and 20th centuries uneasily intermix--and often explode.
The National Security Council’s decision early in 1996 to fund and approve the Counterterrorist Center’s new “virtual” station to track Osama bin Laden meant there were now funds, analysts, and case officers dedicated to collecting intelligence on the Saudi and his operations. A walk-in defector ...
“All of Iraq’s oil belongs to all the people of Iraq,” Feith said. The Bush administration had “not yet decided on the organizational mechanisms” through which the Iraqi oil industry might be restructured after the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, but he felt that he should “address head-on the accus...