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The Afghan Solution: The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and How Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan

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Published in time for the tenth anniversary of the Afghan war, this explosive book exposes how the West lost its chance to rout the Taliban and stabilise Afghanistan. In late 2001, a group of Afghan tribal leaders met to plan how to topple the Taliban. Within weeks the plan was in tatters, thwarted by the West, and the group's leader, Abdul Haq, assassinated by the Taliban. Lucy Morgan Edwards's investigation into Haq's tragic mission led her to Taliban ministers, warlords, spies and two American Republican brothers who financed Haq’s venture. Based on the author's own experience of the war in Afghanistan, this book reveals how a solution to the war was lost and why it matters today.

Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 The `Peace versus Justice’ Strategy Chapter 2 Reigniting Fundamentalism Chapter 3 The Poetess of Jalalabad Chapter 4 `I’d Rather be a Lion for a Day, than a Jackal all my Life’ Chapter 5 A `Cataclysmic Event for the West’ Chapter 6 The `Lion of Kabul’ Chapter 7 `These Days, We Don’t know who the Enemy is’. Chapter 8 `Afghanistan will be the World’s Largest Poppy Field’ Chapter 9 `First you call us Freedom Fighters, now Warlords’ Chapter 10 Playing the al-Qaeda Card Chapter 11 `No-one Could Hold a Candle to him’ - the Hurdles Faced by a Private US Effort to Support Abdul Haq (Part I) Chapter 12 A Perspective on British Post-September 11 Strategy and Intelligence - The UK Haq Effort (Part I) Chapter 13 `He Would have Begun a Revolution, That’s Why They Killed him so Fast’ - A Taliban Interior Minister Speaks Chapter 14 `Camp Followers’ in Kabul Chapter 15 The King’s Group and `Rome’ Chapter 16 From Jihadi Commanders to Taliban Chapter 17 Return to Kandahar Chapter 18 Governance and Traditional Structures Chapter 19 A Further Perspective on British Post-September 11 Intelligence - The UK Haq Effort (Part II) Chapter 20 When did the US Really Choose Karzai? - A Private US effort to Support Abdul Haq (Part II) Chapter 21 Abdul Haq and CIA Strategy in Afghanistan Chapter 22 Conclusions and Ways Forward

About the Author :
Lucy Morgan Edwards arrived in Afghanistan as an aid worker at the height of the Taliban regime. She was an election monitor at the 2002 emergency Loya Jirga (Grand Council) and then a freelance journalist, writing for the Economist and Daily Telegraph. From 2004 to 2005 she was Political Advisor to the EU Ambassador in Kabul. She is now based in Geneva.

Review :
A deeply-reported, well-argued and deftly-written account of the opportunities not taken ... based on the author's own deep knowledge of Afghanistan. -- Peter Bergen, author of The Longest War: The Enduring War Between America and Al Qaeda A devastating indictment of the intelligence and strategic failures that have led us into the current tragedy in Afghanistan. -- William Pfaff This insightful, animated volume ... draws on previously unpublished, uniquely qualified Afghan and foreign sources to tell the story of Abdul Haq's tragic death, the legacy he has left behind, and its applicability to the present and to the future. -- Peter Tomsen, author of The Wars of Afghanistan and former US Ambassador to the Afghan resistance 1989-92 Vital reading for everyone who truly wants to understand this tragic conflict. -- Peter Oborne, Political Editor, DaTelegraphily Telegraph I was in direct contact with Abdul Haq in the days immediately following 9/11. His tragic story is a microcosm of where we have gone wrong in Afghanistan. -- Lord Paddy Ashdown, Liberal Democrat leader 1988 - 1999 By far the best account of Afghanistan during the period that I have read. It combines the pace of a page-gripping thriller with the insights of a piece of travel writing and political journalism at their best. -- Conor Foley, author of The Thin Blue Line: How Humanitarianism went to War A timely reminder of the roads not taken and strategic options left unexplored. The cumulative effect constitutes a compelling indictment of state-building through external imposition. This book blends personal insights with a prof-essional detachment and will appeal to the analyst, policymaker, practitioner and, not least, the decision-makers of tomorrow: the students of today. -- Dr Graeme Herd, The Geneva Centre for Security Policy


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  • ISBN-13: 9780956844910
  • Publisher: Bactria Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Bactria Press
  • Language: English
  • Sub Title: The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and How Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan
  • ISBN-10: 095684491X
  • Publisher Date: 20 Oct 2011
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • No of Pages: 368


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