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050 0 0 _aDS371.2.
_bH36 2015
100 1 _aHamid, Mustafa.
245 1 4 _aThe Arabs at war in Afghanistan /
_cMustafa Hamid, Leah Farrall.
260 _aLondon :
_bHurst & Company,
_c©2015.
300 _axxxi, 355 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c22 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 _aContents: 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.
546 _a124
650 0 _aTaliban
_x History.
650 0 _aQaida (Organization)
_x History.
650 0 _aSoviet Occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1989).
651 0 _aAfghanistan
_x History
_x Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.
651 0 _aAfghanistan
_x History
_y 1989-2001.
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_cMON
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