
Unholy Wars : Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism.
Title:
Unholy Wars : Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism.
Author:
Cooley, John K.
ISBN:
9781849645119
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (320 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Introduction -- 1 Carter and Brezhnev in the Valley of Decision -- Notes -- 2 Anwar al-Sadat -- Notes -- 3 Zia al-Haq -- Notes -- 4 Deng Xiaoping -- Notes -- 5 Recruiters, Trainers, Trainees and Assorted Spooks -- Notes -- 6 Donors, Bankers and Profiteers -- Notes -- 7 Poppy Fields, Killing Fields and Druglords -- Notes -- 8 Russia: Bitter Aftertaste and Reluctant Return -- Notes -- 9 The Contagion Spreads: Egypt and the Maghreb -- Notes -- 10 The Contagion Spreads: The Assault on America -- Notes -- 11 More Contagion: The Philippines -- Notes -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Notes -- Appendix I Press Release From United States Attorney, Southern District of New York, November 4, 1998 -- Appendix II The Resolution of the CPSU Central Committee -- Index -- Aaron, Raymond, 260 -- Abdallah, Prince, Saudi, 123 -- Abdel Rahman, Medhat Muhamad 185 -- Abdel Rahman, Sheikh Omar -- 40-4 -- 87-8 -- 223 -- 233 -- 242 -- and Abu Sayyaf [Philippines], 256 -- World Trade Center bombing, 218 -- World Trade Center bombing, 218 -- World Trade Center bombing, 219 -- World Trade Center bombing, 219 -- World Trade Center bombing, 239 -- World Trade Center bombing, 239 -- World Trade Center bombing, 242-7 -- World Trade Center bombing, 242-7 -- Abdelkader, Emir of Algeria 198 -- Abdul Azziz, Prince 115 -- Abdullah II, King of Jordan 46 -- Abedi, Agha Hassan -- and BCCI, 112 -- and BCCI, 114 -- and Kamal Adham, 114 -- and William Casey, 116 -- Abkhazia -- and Chechen war, 176 -- and Georgia, 177 -- and Georgia, 177 -- and Georgia, 179 -- and Georgia, 179 -- drugs trade, 161 -- Abu Nidal 114 -- Abu Qurqas, Copts attacked at -- 185 -- 187 -- Abu Sayyaf group -- 64 -- 113 -- 232 -- 238 -- in Afghanistan, 260 -- Abu Sayyaf group [Philippines] -- kidnappings, 255 -- kidnappings, 257-8.
links with bin Laden and Yousef, 255-6 -- power struggle within, 254-5 -- xii, 64 -- xii, 232 -- xii, 238-40 -- xii, 248 -- xii, 260-1 -- Abu Zeid, Dr. Nasr Hamed 192 -- Abuhalima, Mahmoud -- 237 -- 243 -- 244 -- Acquino, Corazon, President of Philippines -- 252 -- 254 -- Adams, James 56 -- Adham, Kamal -- and Abu Sayyaf group, 232 -- and BCCI, 113 -- and BCCI, 114 -- and bin Laden, 119 -- and Saudi intelligence, 113-14 -- member of Safari Club, 25 -- member of Safari Club, 43 -- member of Safari Club, 112 -- Afghan veterans -- 5 -- 88 -- 195 -- in Algeria, 86 -- in Algeria, 125 -- in Algeria, 194 -- in Algeria, 201 -- in Algeria, 202-6 -- in Caucasus, 180-2 -- in Egypt, 6 -- in Egypt, 44-5 -- in Egypt, 185 -- in Egypt, 189 -- in Indonesia, 240 -- in Kashmir, 233-4 -- in Nagorno-Karabakh, 180-1 -- in Philippines, 253 -- in Philippines, 254 -- in Russia, 163 -- in Russia, 164 -- in Russia, 165-6 -- Morocco, 215 -- Tunisia, 213 -- Tunisia, 214 -- Uighur, 73 -- Afghan war -- and growth of drugs trade, 127 -- as Soviet Vietnam, 19-20 -- as Soviet Vietnam, 54 -- as Soviet Vietnam, 55 -- Northern Alliance, 167-8 -- road bandits, 144 -- Soviet invasion, 2-3 -- Soviet invasion, 28 -- success of Taliban, 144-5 -- success of Taliban, 144-5 -- success of Taliban, 228 -- success of Taliban, 228 -- Afghanistan -- and the Great Game, 9-10 -- bin Laden's camps in, 220-1 -- drug production, 5 -- drug production, 131 -- drug production, 132 -- drug production, 135 -- drug production, 136-7 -- Iranian interests in, 25 -- Islamism, 31 -- Islamism, 63-4 -- liberal constitution, 11 -- Najibullah regime, 61 -- Najibullah regime, 62 -- political divisions, xi, 63-6 -- roads through, 72-3 -- Soviet influence in, 10-11 -- Soviet influence in, 25-6 -- spies taken, 98-9.
Taliban training camps, US missile attacks on, 7 -- Taliban training camps, US missile attacks on, 7 -- Taliban training camps, US missile attacks on, 167 -- Taliban training camps, US missile attacks on, 167 -- Africa -- 2 -- 25 -- 94 -- Afridi, Hadji Ayoub -- 139-43 -- 160 -- Ahmed, Manzoor 225 -- Aida, performance at Luxor 185 -- AIDS, and drugs 173 -- Ajaj, Ahmed -- 243-4 -- 246 -- Akhromayev, Marshal Sergei 165 -- Akhromyev, Marshal Sergei 18 -- Akhtar Abdel Rahman Khan, General, ISI -- 54-5 -- 57 -- 60-1 -- 63 -- 230 -- death in plane crash, 110 -- death in plane crash, 110 -- death in plane crash, 229 -- death in plane crash, 229 -- al-'Owhali, Muhammad Rashid -- 219 -- 222 -- al-Afghani, Jaffar 204 -- al-Afghani, Tayeb [Aissa Messaoudi] -- 203 -- 205 -- al-Assad, Hafez, President of Syria 45 -- al-Bidh, General Ibrahim 123 -- al-Deek, Khalil 46 -- al-Fadli, Tariq 124 -- Al-Faran group 234 -- al-Gama'a al-Islamiya organization -- 39-40 -- 120 -- 190 -- 191 -- 223 -- anquds, 40 -- anquds, 41 -- Luxor massacre, 186 -- Luxor massacre, 186 -- Luxor massacre, 219 -- Luxor massacre, 219 -- al-Gawli, Sultan Ibrahim 243 -- al-Ghanushi, Rashid 213 -- al-Hamidi, Sheikh Muhammed -- 85 -- 86 -- Al-Hijrah for Construction and Development -- 121 -- 123 -- al-Husseini, Huda 108 -- al-Islambuli, Khaled -- 39-40 -- 189 -- 242 -- Al-Jihad [Al-Gihad in Egypt] -- 40-1 -- 47 -- 120 -- 189 -- 219 -- al-Khalifa, Muhammad Jamal 256 -- al-Khattab, Amir 178 -- Al-Kifah Afghan Refugee Center, Brooklyn 87 -- al-Mawdudi, Abul Alaa -- 43 -- 49-50 -- al-Naggar, Ahmed Sayyed 47 -- al-Omar Moujahidin 235 -- al-Qaddafi, Muammar, Libyan president -- 7 -- 100 -- 190 -- 214 -- links with Misuari, 252-3 -- rehabilitation in West, 261 -- al-Qaida organization -- 7 -- 120 -- 219 -- 221-2 -- guerrilla training of, 227 -- in Sudan, 122.
Pakistan and Taliban and, 225 -- al-Sadat, Anwar, President of Egypt -- 4 -- 30 -- 34 -- and Kamal Adham, 114 -- and Muslim Brotherhood, 6 -- and Muslim Brotherhood, 31-2 -- and Muslim Brotherhood, 36-8 -- and Muslim Brotherhood, 42-3 -- and peace treaty with Israel, 4 -- and peace treaty with Israel, 27 -- and peace treaty with Israel, 32 -- and Safari Club, 24 -- and Safari Club, 26 -- and war with Israel, 187-8 -- assassination, 36 -- assassination, 38-41 -- assassination, 44 -- assassination, 120 -- assassination, 122 -- expulsion of Soviet advisors, 25 -- expulsion of Soviet advisors, 36 -- expulsion of Soviet advisors, 114 -- expulsion of Soviet advisors, 188 -- relations with US, 32-3 -- relations with US, 34-5 -- relationswith Islamists, 35 -- al-Serri, Yasser, chief of al-Gihad 47 -- al-Shazli, General Saduddin 190 -- Al-Takfir wa'l Hijra [Egypt] 41 -- Al-Takfir wal Hijra [Morocco] 215 -- al-Telmisani, Umar, Muslim Brotherhood 37 -- al-Turabi, Sheikh Hassan -- and bin Laden, 121 -- and bin Laden, 121 -- and bin Laden, 123 -- and bin Laden, 123 -- and bin Laden, 192 -- and bin Laden, 192 -- and bin Laden, 220 -- and bin Laden, 220 -- and bin Laden, 228 -- and bin Laden, 228 -- al-Zawahri, Ayman -- 120 -- 229 -- al-Zumor, Abboud 122 -- Albania, attack on US embassy 224 -- Albright, Madeleine -- 220 -- 224 -- alcohol, in Soviet army 131 -- Alfi, Hassan 186 -- Algeria -- 26 -- 84 -- 262 -- Afghan veterans, 86 -- Afghan veterans, 125 -- Afghan veterans, 194 -- Afghan veterans, 201 -- Afghan veterans, 202-6 -- AIS [Islamic Salvation Army], 197 -- AIS [Islamic Salvation Army], 210 -- ALN [National Liberation Army], 199 -- as French colony, 195-7 -- as French colony, 198-9 -- Berbers in, 201-2 -- bin Laden's contacts in, 226 -- border war with Morocco, 217 -- Canadian connections, xii, 206.
civil war, 6 -- civil war, 194 -- civil war, 199-200 -- civil war, 203 -- Cremieux Decree, 196 -- economy, 85-6 -- economy, 194 -- economy, 207-9 -- economy, 211 -- education, 196-7 -- education, 201 -- education, 209 -- elections canceled, 194 -- elections canceled, 195 -- elections canceled, 202 -- elections canceled, 214 -- FIS [Islamic Salvation Front], 191 -- FIS [Islamic Salvation Front], 195 -- FIS [Islamic Salvation Front], 197 -- FIS [Islamic Salvation Front], 202-3 -- FIS [Islamic Salvation Front], 205 -- FLN [National Liberation Front], 194 -- FLN [National Liberation Front], 199 -- FLN [National Liberation Front], 200 -- FLN [National Liberation Front], 201 -- FLN [National Liberation Front], 202 -- FLN [National Liberation Front], 210 -- funds for, 107 -- funds for, 203 -- GIA [Armed Islamic Group], 197 -- GIA [Armed Islamic Group], 203 -- GIA [Armed Islamic Group], 205-7 -- GIA [Armed Islamic Group], 208 -- GIA [Armed Islamic Group], 209 -- Islamic League for Dawa and Jihad [LIDD], 210 -- Islamism, 194 -- Islamism, 197-8 -- Islamism, 200-2 -- Islamism, 211-2 -- links with Morocco, 215 -- massacres, 207 -- massacres, 208 -- massacres, 212 -- recruitment for jihad, 86 -- recruitment for jihad, 203 -- reforms, 210-11 -- robbery and banditry, 126 -- robbery and banditry, 209 -- Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat [GSPC], 212 -- splinter group, 212 -- war of independence, 194 -- war of independence, 199 -- war of independence, 200-1 -- war of independence, 260 -- Aliev, Gaidar, Azerbaijani president -- 180 -- 181 -- Alkaisi, Bilal -- 243 -- 244 -- Allix, Stephane, journalist -- 140 -- 141 -- 148-9 -- 150-2 -- in Almaty, 158-9 -- on Tajikistan drugs trade, 154 -- Almaty [Kazakhstan] 158-9 -- Altman, Robert 113 -- Amanpour, Christiane 220 -- Ambon, island 240 -- Amer, Muhammad 120.
Amin, Hafizullah.
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