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'Cooley's argument, amply documented, is that virtually everyone involved in the Afghan affair paid an extortionate price ... His thesis has been vindicated by recent events.' Tariq Ali, London Review of Books
To oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, the United States formed an extraordinary anti-communist alliance with militant Islamic forces in South Asia. In this controversial and acclaimed book, John Cooley provides the first behind-the-scenes account of this alliance and of how the CIA planned and ran the 'holy war' in Afghanistan. This new edition brings the subject up to date with the US and Canada since December 1999. Cooley covers the important events that have taken place in Algeria; the impact of Pakistan's military coup of October 1999 on Indo-Pakistani relations; and the political destabilization of the Philippines through the Muslim separatist uprising which began in 1998, especially the orgy of kidnapping for profit by the former Afghan Abu Sayyaf group in 2000.
'Important and timely ... [It] examines a strange love affair that went disastrously wrong, the alliance of America and some of the most conservative and fanatical followers of Islam.' Los Angeles Times Book Review
'Read this book and you will see the clash between radical Islam and the West in a new light.' Charles William Maynes, former editor, Foreign Policy
John K. Cooley is a correspondent for ABC News and has written widely on the Middle East and North Africa. He is the author of five other books on the Middle East, including Payback: America's Long War in the Middle East (1991) and Libyan Sandstorm: Qaddafi's Revolution (1981).
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