xxi, 365 p., [16] p. of plates : col. ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: Dramatis personae : principal characters of the narrative and their positions in 2001—Chronology—The 'peace versus justice' strategy : Kabul, June 2002—Reigniting fundamentalism : Kabul, July-October 2002—The poetess of Jalalabad : Jalalabad, October 2002—'I'd rather be a lion for a day, than a jackal all my life' : Jalalabad, October 2002—A 'cataclysmic event for the West' : Peshawar, October 2002—The 'Lion of Kabul' : Afghanistan, 1980s—'These days, we don't know who the enemy is' : Jalalabad, 2002—'Afghanistan will be the world's largest poppy field' : Jalalabad, Shinwar and Kabul, May 2003—'First you call us freedom fighters, now warlords' : Herat and Jalalabad, May 2003—Playing the al-Qaeda card : Jalalabad, Goste and Fatemena, August 2003—'No-one could hold a candle to him', the hurdles faced by a private US effort to support Abdul Haq (part I) : Jalalabad, August 2003—A perspective on British post-September 11 strategy and intelligence, the UK Haq effort (part I) : London, September 2003—'He would have begun a revolution, that's why they killed him so fast,' a Taliban interior minister speaks : Kabul, January 2004—'Camp followers' in Kabul : Kabul and Jalalabad, January 2004-January 2005—The King's group and 'Rome' : Kabul, December 2004—From jihadi commanders to Taliban : Kabul, Faizabad and Jalalabad, 2004-5—Return to Kandahar : Kandahar, 2005—Governance and traditional structures : Jalalabad, 2004-5—A further perspective on British post-September 11 intelligence, the UK Haq effort (part II) : London and Geneva, 2009—When did the US really choose Karzai? A private US effort to support Abdul Haq (part II) : Geneva, July 2009—Abdul Haq and CIA strategy in Afghanistan—Conclusions and ways forward.
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