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Gutman -- How we missed the story : Osama... -- 2008

Call Number
327.730581
G983
2008
Author Gutman, Roy.
Title How we missed the story : Osama bin Laden, the Taliban, and the hijacking of Afghanistan / Roy Gutman.
Imprint Washington, D.C. : United States Institute of Peace, 2008.
Physical Description xvii, 321 p. : map ; 24 cm.
ISBN/ISSN 9781601270245 (hardcover : alk. paper); 1601270240 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: Introduction: The death of foreign policy? -- Comrades: the end! (1989) -- A half solution (1989-1992) -- With Massoud (1992-1994) -- "A very exciting development" (1994-1996) -- "An endless tragedy of epic proportions" (1997) -- "Silence cannot be the strategy" (1998) -- Hijacking a regime (1999) -- Coasting toward catastrophe (2000-2001) -- Human rights under Massoud and the Taliban -- Radicalization without response -- Epilogue: Clemenceau revisited.
Subject Headings United States – Foreign relations – Afghanistan.
Afghanistan – Foreign relations – United States.
United States – Foreign relations – 1989-
Afghanistan – History – 1989-2001.
Masud, Aḣmadshoḣ, 1953-2001.
Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-
Taliban.
September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
Terrorism – Government policy – United States.
Accession Number 10327
Language English
Copies 1
Record Number 9286