Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll
	List Price:   $18.00 Unit Price:   $14.40 You Save:   $3.60 (20%) ISBN-10:   0143034669 ISBN-13:   9780143034667 Publisher:   Penguin Group (USA) Inc Edition:   illustrated Category:   Young Adults Pub. Date:   December 2004 Pages:   738 Format:   Paperback Ages:   18 to Grades:   12 to
Subjects
UNITED STATES_CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY AFGHANISTAN_HISTORY_SOVIET OCCUPATION, 1979-1989 BIN LADEN, OSAMA, 1957-
Description/Notes
From the managing editor of 'The Washington Post' comes this news-breaking account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. To what extent did America?s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks. Based on scrupulous research and firsthand accounts by key government, intelligence, and military personnel both foreign and American, Coll details the secret history of the CIA?s role in Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and the failed efforts by U.S. forces to find and assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan. With this book, Coll establishes a reputation as large as that of his Postcolleague Bob Woodward. (The Globe and Mail, Toronto) The CIA itself would be hard put to beat his grasp of global events... Deeply satisfying. (Ahmed Rashid, The New York Review of Books)