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UNINA9910463177603321 |
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Zaeef Abdul Salam |
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Titolo |
My Life with the Taliban / / Abdul Salam Zaeef ; edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn |
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London [England] : , : Hurst & Company, , 2010 |
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©2010 |
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ISBN |
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1-84904-444-9 |
1-84904-445-7 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (681 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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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 |
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UNINA9910716690403321 |
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Titolo |
Internal-revenue tax upon passage tickets. February 17, 1927. -- Ordered to be printed |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1927 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (2 pages) |
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Collana |
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Senate report / 69th Congress, 2nd session. Senate ; ; no. 1503 |
[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 8685.] |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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EdgeWalter E <1873-1956> (Walter Evans), (Republican (NJ)) |
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Clergy conferences |
Congresses and conventions |
Excise tax |
Passenger ships |
Railroads - Passenger traffic |
Cargo ships - Passenger traffic |
Veterans - Services for - United States |
World War, 1914-1918 |
Legislative materials. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Batch processed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes. |
FDLP item number not assigned. |
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