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About this book
A journalist with deep knowledge of the region provides "an enthralling and largely firsthand account of the war in Afghanistan" (
Financial Times).
Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there right after 9/11, when US special forces helped the Northern Alliance drive the Taliban out of the north and then the south, fighting pitched battles and causing their enemies to flee underground and into Pakistan. Gall knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people—and just how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and intelligence forces.
Combining searing personal accounts of battles and betrayals with moving portraits of the ordinary Afghans who were caught up in the conflict for more than a decade, The Wrong Enemy is a sweeping account of a war brought by American leaders against an enemy they barely understood and could not truly engage.
Few reporters know as much about Afghanistan as Carlotta Gall. She was there in the 1990s after the Russians were driven out. She witnessed the early flourishing of radical Islam, imported from abroad, which caused so much local suffering. She was there right after 9/11, when US special forces helped the Northern Alliance drive the Taliban out of the north and then the south, fighting pitched battles and causing their enemies to flee underground and into Pakistan. Gall knows just how much this war has cost the Afghan people—and just how much damage can be traced to Pakistan and its duplicitous government and intelligence forces.
Combining searing personal accounts of battles and betrayals with moving portraits of the ordinary Afghans who were caught up in the conflict for more than a decade, The Wrong Enemy is a sweeping account of a war brought by American leaders against an enemy they barely understood and could not truly engage.
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Index
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z
A
Abbas, Athar, 258
Abbasi, Zaheer ul-Islam, 20
Abbottabad, Pakistan
bin Laden raided in, 251–52, 256–58, 263
bin Laden’s safe house in, 242–49
bin Laden’s visitors in, 255–56
al-Libi in, 255
Abdullah, Abdullah, 100–101, 197, 201
Abrams, Robert B., 273
Abrar (bin Laden’s courier), 243, 245, 246
Abu Ghraib, 111
Achakzai, Mahmood Khan, 82–83, 160
Achakzai, Mansour, 44, 226
Achakzai tribe, 227, 270, 285
Afghan Local Police program, 274–76
Afghan National Army
formation of, 134–35
Highway One deployment, 190–91
Zhare offensive of, 229–30, 273
Afghan National Liberation Front, 204
Afghanistan. See also specific villages, cities and regions of Afghanistan
Canada military operations in, 136–42, 228
casualties, 94–117, 136, 218, 271–72, 286–87, 307n7
civil war in, 40–43
clothing of, 56
corruption ranking of, 216–17
elections of 2001, 206–8
elections of 2009, 196–98, 200–201, 209–13
festivals, 107
financial scandal in, 216–17
hospitality customs of, 59–60
infrastructure, 182–83, 191–93
Iraq resources versus, 131, 195–96
NATO withdrawal from, 285–86
Pakistan as enemy of, xiv
Pakistan negotiations with, 131–32
peace, hope for, 73–74, 197–99, 284
“peace convoy” trade route with, 43–45
refugees of, 57–58, 73, 216
Soviet invasion of, xii–xiii, 40, 120–21, 204, 299n1
tribal assembly (loya jirga), 23–24, 208, 212–15
uprisings, 277
U.S. airstrikes in, 94–106, 218
U....
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Foreword
- Prologue
- The Taliban Surrender
- The People Turn
- Pakistan’s Protégés
- The Taliban in Exile
- Al Qaeda Regroups
- The Wrong Enemy in the Wrong Country
- The Taliban Return
- The Suicide Bomb Factory
- Photos
- Militancy Explodes in Pakistan
- The Taliban Close Their Grip
- Karzai’s Turn
- Obama’s Surge
- Osama’s Safe Haven
- Springtime in Zangabad
- Afterword
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index
- About the Author
- Connect with HMH