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050 00 $aDS371.2$b.G74 2001
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100 1 $aGriffin, Michael.
245 10 $aReaping the whirlwind :$bthe Taliban movement in Afghanistan /$cMichael Griffin.
246 30 $aAfghanistan's Taliban movement
260 $aSterling, Va. :$bPluto Press,$c2001.
263 $a0104
300 $axxi, 283 pages ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 1 $a"Reaping the Whirlwind provides the first comprehensive profile of the Taliban in the twenty-first century. Drawing on numerous interviews with key protagonists, conducted over a period of several years, Michael Griffin provides a fascinating eyewitness account of the Afghan conflict. He explains the origins and beliefs of the Taliban movement, its religious and political ethos, and the character of its particular brand of so-called Islamic fundamentalism.
520 8 $aCrucially, he examines the controversial nature of the Taliban's international links with the U.S., Saudia Arabia, and other vested interests. Griffin also explores the Taliban's connections with Osama bin Laden, drug barons and drug dealers, and the CIA's ambiguous relationship with what is often viewed as an international Islamist conspiracy.".
520 8 $a"Situated between Asia, the Middle East and the former Soviet states, Afghanistan has historically fulfilled the role of an artifical 'buffer state'. Resource rich and strategically important, it has been of particular interest since the end of the Cold War to Saudi Arabia, Russia, Pakistan and the United States, as well as to drug barons, arms dealers and oil corporations.
520 8 $aAfghanistan's unstable and problematic history has been further complicated in recent years by the emergence of the Taliban - perhaps the most conservative and least understood Islamic movement in the world."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aAfghanistan$xHistory$y1989-2001.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh89002317
610 20 $aTaliban.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98126907
650 0 $aIslamic fundamentalism$zAfghanistan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009127642
650 0 $aIslam and state$zAfghanistan.
650 0 $aIslam and politics$zAfghanistan.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008124173
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