Ghost wars (Record no. 216409)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 1594200076
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Transcribing agency Aloy
041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE
Language code of text/sound track or separate title English
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Edition number 23
Classification number 958.104
Item number COLG
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Personal name Steve Coll
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Title Ghost wars
Remainder of title The secret history of the CIA Afghanistan and bin laden from the soviet invasion to september10 2001
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc. New York
Name of publisher, distributor, etc. The Penguin Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc. 2004
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xvii,695p.
Other physical details HB
Dimensions 24x16cm
365 ## - TRADE PRICE
Price amount $29.95
Currency code $
Unit of pricing $29.95
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. An account of the CIA's involvement in the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and gave rise to bin Laden's al Qaeda. For nearly the past quarter century, while most Americans were unaware, Afghanistan has been the playing field for intense covert operations by U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies-invisible wars which sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks and which provide its context. From the Soviet invasion in 1979 through the summer of 2001, the CIA, KGB, Pakistan's ISI, and Saudi Arabia's General Intelligence Department all operated directly and secretly in Afghanistan. They primed Afghan factions with cash and weapons, secretly trained guerrilla forces, funded propaganda, and manipulated politics. In the midst of these struggles bin Laden conceived and then built his global organization. The author tells the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, from its covert program against Soviet troops from 1979 to 1989, to the rise of the Taliban and the emergence of bin Laden, to the secret efforts by CIA officers and their agents to capture or kill bin Laden in Afghanistan after 1998. Based on extensive firsthand accounts, this story goes well beyond anything previously published on U.S. involvement in Afghanistan. It chronicles the roles of midlevel CIA officers, their Afghan allies, and top spy masters such as Bill Casey, Saudi Arabia's Prince Turki al Faisal, and George Tenet.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Afghanistan History Soviet occupation 1979-1989
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Afghanistan History 1989-2001
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Topical term or geographic name entry element United States
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Bin Laden Osama
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Personal name COLL (Steve)
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Source of classification or shelving scheme Dewey Decimal Classification
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     History St Aloysius Library St Aloysius Library 03/24/2013   958.104 COLG GF01572 09/28/2021 0.00 09/28/2021 George Fernandes Collections