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EBOOK Enemy We Created:The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan
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Wydawnictwo: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780199977239
EAN: A966D59CEB
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Stron: 560
Data wydania: 2012
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The Myth of the Taliban-Al Qaeda Merger in Afghanistan
To this day the belief is widespread that the Taliban and al-Qaeda are in many        respects synonymous, that their ideology and objectives are closely intertwined and        that they have made common cause against the West for decades. Yet this view have        hardly ever been scrutinized or tested empirically. This is all the more surprising        given that the West's present entanglement in Afghanistan is commonly predicated on        the need to defeat the Taliban in order to forestall further terrorist attacks        worldwide. There is thus an urgent need to re-examine the known facts of the        Taliban-al Qaeda relationship and to tell the story of the Taliban's encounter with        internationalist militant Islamism. In An Enemy We Created, Alex Strick van        Linschoten and Felix Kuehn focus on the complexity of the relationship between the        two groups and the individuals who established them.The book, which has already been        cited prominently in The New Yorker, is the first to examine in detail the        relationship from the Taliban's perspective based on Arabic, Dari and Pashtu        sources, drawing on the authors many years of experience in southern Afghanistan,        the Taliban s heartland. They also interviewed Taliban decision-makers, field        commanders and ordinary fighters while immersing themselves in Kandahar s society.        The story of those individuals who were to become the key decision-makers, and the        relationships among all those involved from the mid-1990s onward, reveal how        frequently the Taliban and al-Qaeda diverged rather than converged. An Enemy We        Created concludes that there is room to engage the Taliban on two fundamental        issues: renouncing al-Qaeda and guaranteeing that Afghanistan will not be a        sanctuary for international terrorists. Yet the insurgency is changing, and it could        soon be too late to find a political solution. The authors contend that certain        aspects of the campaign in Afghanistan, especially night raids and attempts to        fragment and decapitate the Taliban, are transforming the resistance, creating more        opportunities for al-Qaeda and helping it to attain its objectives.

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