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Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 / Steve Coll.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Penguin Press, 2004Description: xvii, 695 pages : maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1594200076
  • 9781594200076
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 958.1045 22
LOC classification:
  • DS371.2 .C63 2004
Contents:
Prologue : accounts receivable, September 1996 -- Part 1. Blood brothers : November 1979 to February 1989. 1. We're going to die here -- 2. Lenin taught us -- 3. Go raise hell -- 4. I loved Osama -- 5. Don't make it our war -- 6. Who is this Massoud? --7. The terrorists will own the world -- 8. Inshallah, you will know my plans -- 9. We won -- Part 2. The one-eyed man was king : March 1989 to December 1997. 10. Serious risks -- 11. A rogue elephant -- 12. We are in danger -- 13. A friend of your enemy -- 14. Maintain a prudent distance -- 15. A new generation -- 16. Slowly, slowly sucked into it -- 17. Dangling the carrot -- 18. We couldn't indict him -- 19. We're keeping these Stingers -- 20. Does America need the CIA? -- Part 3. The distant enemy : January 1989 to September 10, 2001. 21. You are to capture him alive -- 22. The kingdom's interest -- 23. We are at war -- 24. Let's just blow the thing up -- 25. The Manson family -- 26. The unit disappeared -- 27. You crazy white guys -- 28. Is there any policy? -- 29. Daring me to kill them -- 30. What face will Omar show to God? -- 31. Many Americans are going to die -- 32. What an unlucky country -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 653-664) and index.

Prologue : accounts receivable, September 1996 -- Part 1. Blood brothers : November 1979 to February 1989. 1. We're going to die here -- 2. Lenin taught us -- 3. Go raise hell -- 4. I loved Osama -- 5. Don't make it our war -- 6. Who is this Massoud? --7. The terrorists will own the world -- 8. Inshallah, you will know my plans -- 9. We won -- Part 2. The one-eyed man was king : March 1989 to December 1997. 10. Serious risks -- 11. A rogue elephant -- 12. We are in danger -- 13. A friend of your enemy -- 14. Maintain a prudent distance -- 15. A new generation -- 16. Slowly, slowly sucked into it -- 17. Dangling the carrot -- 18. We couldn't indict him -- 19. We're keeping these Stingers -- 20. Does America need the CIA? -- Part 3. The distant enemy : January 1989 to September 10, 2001. 21. You are to capture him alive -- 22. The kingdom's interest -- 23. We are at war -- 24. Let's just blow the thing up -- 25. The Manson family -- 26. The unit disappeared -- 27. You crazy white guys -- 28. Is there any policy? -- 29. Daring me to kill them -- 30. What face will Omar show to God? -- 31. Many Americans are going to die -- 32. What an unlucky country -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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