Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism

Name: Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism
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ISBN: 9780745316918

ISBN-10: 0745316913

ISBN-13: 9780745316918

Edition: 2nd 2000 (Revised)

Authors: John Cooley

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To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the US formed an anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces in Central Asia. This book provides an account of this alliance and how the CIA planned and ran a holy war in Afghanistan.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Pluto Press
Publication date: 12/20/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

John K. Cooley is a correspondent for ABC News and has written widely on the Middle East and North Africa. In 1996 he received the coveted George Polk Memorial Award from Long Island University for a 'distinguished career achievement in international reportage' for more than 40 years of reporting and living in the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of five other books on the Middle East, including Payback: America's Long War in the Middle East (1991) and Libyan Sandstorm: Qaddafi's Revolution (1981).



Maps


Acknowledgements


Preface to the Third Edition


Foreword


Carter and Brezhnev in the Valley of Decision


Anwar al-Sadat


Zia al-Haq


Deng Xiaoping


Recruiters, Trainers, Trainees and Assorted Spooks


Donors, Bankers and Profiteers


Poppy Fields, Killing Fields and Druglords


Russia: Bitter Aftertaste and Reluctant Return


The Contagion Spreads: Egypt and the Maghreb


More Contagion: The Philippines


The Contagion Spreads: The Assault on America


Epilogue to the Third Edition


Notes


Press Release From United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, November 4, 1998


The Resolution of the CPSU Central Committee


Index