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AFGHANISTAN-How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan

AFGHANISTAN How We Missed the Story: Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the Hijacking of Afghanistan, by Roy Gutman. Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace, 2008. xvii + 353 pages. Epilogue to p. 262. Dramatis personae to p. 270. Notes to p. 298. Index to p. 321. $26.

Reviewed by Thomas Barfield

For American policymakers, events in Afghanistan (and al-Qa'ida threats of violence emanating from there) ranked only slightly above asteroids hitting the earth as a momentous concern before the fall of 2001. Although suicide bombers had struck two American embassies in East Africa, almost sunk an American warship in Yemen, and the Taliban regime was growing ever more belligerent, the ...

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