COLL Steve <br/><br/>
Ghost wars:  the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 

 - New York:  Penguin,  2004 
 - 695p. 
<br/><br/> This book covers the secret involvement in Afghanistan of various countries from 1979 to 2001: the USSR, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and most especially the United States and the CIA. Shows how each tried to gain political influence and how this inadvertently led to the rise of the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. Asks whether and to what extent US intelligence were aware of the rising threat posed by political Islam and what steps were taken to deal with al Qaeda. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>1594200076 (hbk.):  29.95 USD 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>AFGHANISTAN--SOVIET OCCUPATION<br/>CIA<br/>TALIBAN<br/>UNITED STATES--FOREIGN POLICY--AFGHANISTAN