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Author Coll, Steve.

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

Imprint New York, NY : Penguin Books, 2005.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  958.1045 C683g 2005    ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  958.1045 C683g 2005 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description xvii, 712 p. : ill., maps ; 22 cm.
Note "Updated with new documents from the 9/11 Commission"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [667]-679) and index.
Contents Accounts receivable September 1996 -- Blood brothers: November 1979 to February 1989: We're going to die here; Lenin taught us; Go raise hell; I loved Osama; Don't make it our war; Who is this Massoud?; Terrorists will own the world; Inshallah, you will know my plans; We won -- One-eyed man was king: March 1989 to December 1997: Serious risks; Rogue elephant; We are in danger; Friend of your enemy; Maintain a prudent distance; New generation; Slowly, slowly sucked into it; Dangling the carrot; We couldn't indict him; We're keeping these Stingers; Does America need the CIA? -- The distant enemy: January 1998 to September 10, 2001: You are to capture him alive; Kingdom's interests; We are at war; Let's just blow the thing up; Manson family; That unit disappeared; You crazy white guys; Is there any policy?; Daring me to kill them; What face will Omar show to God?; Many Americans are going to die; What an unlucky country.
Subject Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.
Afghanistan -- History -- 1989-2001.
United States. Central Intelligence Agency.
Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011
ISBN 0143034669 (pbk.)
9780143034667 (pbk.)
0141020806 (pbk.)
9780141020808 (pbk.)
Standard No. IG# 0143034669
YDXCP 2146605

 
    
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