Leading figure talks of divisions within Taliban (CBS News)
Says only "a few" hard-liners resist peace settlement, but also that West fails to bolster moderates within fundamentalist Islamic movement
The Beginning of Taliban Movement
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Inside the Jihad: My Life with Al Qaeda $2.88 Between 1994 and 2000, Omar Nasiri worked as a secret agent for Europe’s top foreign intelligence services – including France’s DGSE (Direction Générale de la Sécurité Extérieure), and Britain’s MI5 and MI6. From the netherworld of Islamist cells in Belgium, to the training camps of Afghanistan, to the radical mosques of London, he risked his life to defeat the emerging global network t… |
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Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan $7.71 Afghanistan has historically fulfilled the role of an artificial “buffer state”. In recent years, and particularly after the collapse of the Soviet Union, it has become the geopolitical playground of various regional interests – the Saudis, the Russians, the Pakistanis and the Americans. Resource rich and strategically important, Afghanistan’s unstable and problematic history has been further comp… |
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Over the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers’ Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia $1.89 Before dawn on August 12, 2000, four of America’s best young rock climbers, the oldest of them only twenty-five, were sleeping in their portaledges high on the Yellow Wall, in the Pamir-Alai mountain range of Kyrgyzstan, in central Asia. By daybreak, they would be taken at gunpoint by fanatical militants of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU), which operates out of secret bases in Tajikistan … |
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