Without Borders : : the Haqqani Network and the Road to Kabul
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"This is the untold story of the origins, political awakening, and rise of what the United States and its allies call the Haqqani Network, and what the Haqqani family calls the Haqqani Mujahideen. The author lived with the Haqqanis as a young reporter for the New York Times in the 1980s, in the mountains of eastern Afghanistan, when they were America's allies in the Afghan-Soviet war. After 9/11, the network became America's enemy. This book tells the exciting story of how the author began to try to find the Haqqanis again, and, later, his quest to understand their influence in the greater Middle East. This is the story of the rise of an ideology and movement born in the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, which resurfaced in Arabia and India in the 18th Century, lived on in the anti-Christian, anti-British, anti-European, and anti-Russian colonial movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, and in modern times evolved, with American help, into the Haqqani Mujahideen and their allies and followers around the world"-- Provided by publisher.
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PUBLISHED
Washington : Academica Press, 2022.
Year Published: 2022
Description: 6, 390 pages ; 23 cm
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1680538659
9781680538656
SUBJECTS
Haqqani (Organization)
Ideology -- Islam.
Terrorists -- Middle East.
Middle East -- Politics and government -- 1979-