Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to...

To what extent did America?s best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time, Pulitzer Prize?winning journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks. Based on scrupulous research and firsthand accounts by key government, intelligence, and military personnel both foreign and American, Coll details the secret history of the CIA?s role in Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and the failed efforts by U.S. forces to find and assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan. more

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-16-2009; Essential with THE LAST PHARAOH; Essential with THE LAST PHARAOH in order to understand how America is being underminded by its own so called allies such in Egypt. It was on eof the Black Holes and rife with torture. Unbelievable. The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-14-2009; Ghost Wars is terrific; Great book! A well researched, unbiased view of the CIA's relationship with Afghanistan's many personality's over the latter part of the twentieth century.; read full review | report as inappropriate

5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-13-2009; Comprehensive and engrossing.; This is a thoroughly researched and very well written treatise on modern Afghanistan. Anyone interested in understanding the political, military and religious events leading up to the environment in which the Unites States is now...; read full review | report as inappropriate

4/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Aug-15-2009; How To Understand How we Got Here!; Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001This Book is ones best tutorial to understand why we are where we are in Afghanistan and some of the middle east. It...; read full review | report as inappropriate

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5/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Sep-16-2009; Essential with THE LAST PHARAOH; Essential with THE LAST PHARAOH in order to understand how America is being underminded by its own so called allies such in Egypt. It was on eof the Black Holes and rife with torture. Unbelievable. The Last Pharaoh: Mubarak and the...; read full review | report as inappropriate

3/5: From: Amazon; Posted: May-16-2009; Hard reading; Hard book to read. Author uses a lot of big words that were unnecessary, making the reading go really slow. Not like other books of it's kind, where you can't put them down because they are so interesting. Husband actually went and...; read full review | report as inappropriate

1/5: From: Amazon; Posted: Jun-22-2008; Factually Incorrect; The only way this book would score more than one star is if people buy it as a work of fiction. It is riddled with factual holes and just plain wrong information, I don't know if this was by design to create an element of fiction, or...; read full review | report as inappropriate