TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hamid,Mustafa
TI  - The Arabs at war in Afghanistan / 
SN  - 9781849044202
AV  - DS371.2. H36 2015
PY  - 2015///
CY  - London : 
PB  - Hurst & Company, 
KW  - Taliban
KW  -  History.
KW  - Qaida (Organization)
KW  - Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1989).
KW  - Afghanistan
KW  -  History
KW  -  Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.
KW  -  1989-2001.
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Contents: Introducing Mustafa Hamid -- The Arab-Afghan jihad -- Early training and Taliban origins -- Two memos and an idea that spread: the real origins of Maktab al-Khadamat -- Jaji and the establishment of al-Masadah -- Confused origins: al-Qaeda's post-Jaji emergence and the Arab Advisory Council -- Jalalabad and the Arab-Afghan training storm -- The Afghan civil war and Arab-Afghan flight -- The Arab-Afghan return and the rise of the Taliban -- Strong horse, weak horse: Arab-Afghan politics and al-Qaeda's realpolitik -- Arab-Afghan unity efforts and 9/11 -- Reflections.
ER  -