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Killing the Cranes

Nick Mills | Posted 02.25.2012 | Books
Read More: Hamid Karzai, Peshawar, Killing the Cranes, Masood Khalili, Cia, Isi, Taliban, Edward Girardet, Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Al Qaeda, Books News
Nick Mills

In Edward Girardet's fine new book, Killing the Cranes, there is this damning sentence: "Simply put, it was the U.S. backing for the Islamic extremists in the 1980s that helped produce the current military quagmire in Afghanistan."

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Another Old Friend and a Great Afghan Murdered

Eric Margolis | Posted 11.27.2011 | World
Read More: Peshawar, Hadji Kadir, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Afghanistan, Burhanuddin Rabbani, Northern Alliance, Pakistan, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Mikhail Gorbachev, Ahmed Shah Massoud, Mujahideen, Pushtunwali, World News
Eric Margolis

A suicide bomber killed my old friend, Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan, last week in Kabul, shaking his war-scarred nation to its core.

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