Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 /

Coll, Steve.

Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 / Steve Coll. - New York : Penguin Press, 2004. - xvii, 695 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents : ''We are going to die here -- ''Lenin taught us'' -- ''Go raise hell'' -- '' I love Osama'' -- ''Dont make it our war'' -- '' Who is this massoud?'' -- '' The terrorist will own the world'' -- ''Inshallah, you will know my plant'' -- ''We won'' -- '' Serious risks" -- "A rogue elephant" -- " We are in danger" -- " A friend of your enemy" -- "A new generation" -- "Slowly,slowly sucked into it" -- "Dangling the carrot" -- "We couldn't indict him" -- " We are keeping these stingerss" -- "Does America need the CIA?" -- "You are to capture him alive " -- "The kingdom's interests" -- " We are at war" -- "Let's just blow the thing up" -- "The manson family " -- "That unit disappeared" -- "Your crazy white guys" -- "Is there any policy?"-- "Daring me to kill them" -- "What face will Omar show to God" -- " Many Americans are going to die" -- ''What an unlucky country"

1594200076 (alk. paper)

2003058593


Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011.


United States. Central Intelligence Agency.


Afghanistan--History--Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.
Afghanistan--History--1989-2001.

DS371.2 / .C63 2004

958.104/5

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