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Author Zaeef, Abdul Salam

Title My Life with the Taliban
Published Oxford : Hurst, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (627 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; CONTENTS; Kandahar: Portrait of a City; Editors' Acknowledgements; Editors' Notes; Character List; Foreword by Barnett R. Rubin; Preface by Abdul Salam Zaeef; 1. Death at Home; 2. The Camps; 3. The Jihad; 4. Lessons from the ISI; 5. Bitter Pictures; 6. Withdrawal; 7. Taking Action; 8. The Beginning; 9. Administrative Rule; 10. Mines and Industries; 11. A Monumental Task; 12. Diplomatic Principles; 13. Growing Tensions; 14. The Osama Issue; 15. 9/11 and its Aftermath; 16. A Hard Realisation; 17. Prisoner 306; 18. Guantánamo Bay; 19. Graveyard of the Living
20. Getting Out21. No War to Win; Epilogue: Afghanistan Today; Note; Bibliography; Chronology; Glossary; Suggestions for Further Reading; About the Author and Editors; Index; Footnotes; Otherfmfn; Forewordfn
Summary This is the autobiography of Abdul Salam Zaeef, a senior former member of the Taliban. His memoirs, translated from Pashto, are more than just a personal account of his extraordinary life. My Life with the Taliban offers a counter-narrative to the standard accounts of Afghanistan since 1979. Zaeef describes growing up in rural poverty in Kandahar province. Both of his parents died at an early age, and the Russian invasion of 1979 forced him to flee to Pakistan. He started fighting the jihad in 1983, during which time he was associated with many major figures in the anti-Soviet resistance, incl
Notes Translated from the Pashto
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Subject Z̤aʻīf, ʻAbd al-Salām, 1967 or 1968-
Z̤aʻīf, ʻAbd al-Salām, 1967 or 1968-
Taliban -- Biography
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp -- Biography
Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp
Taliban
Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Biography
Prisoners of war -- Afghanistan -- Biography
Prisoners of war -- United States -- Biography
HISTORY -- Asia -- Central Asia.
HISTORY -- Asia -- General.
Prisoners of war
Afghanistan
United States
Genre/Form Biographies
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781849044448
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