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5.0étoiles sur 5 Ghost Wars and a wilderness of mirrors, Juil 17 2004
Par Michael E. Bartus "Lizard King" (OH ,United States) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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This review is from: Ghost Wars (Hardcover)
The elusiveness of Bin Laden and the failures of the US government to get him is the theme of this great book. Coll has produced a masterpiece of investigative journalism. His book is amply documented and footnoted. However, some of his crucial interviews are left anonymous or unattributed and the identities of these sources would be very valuable to an evaluation of the overall history of this period.

Coll paints a broad and detailed picture of intelligence operations from the invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR up to the attacks upon the World Trade Center in 2001, and he clearly shows how the US effort to defeat the USSR in that country, eventually led to the rise of Bin Laden and Muslim radicalism. The United States and Saudi Arabia gave huge amounts of government largesse to fund the radical Muslims, who did all the fighting and dying to defeat the Communists. Too much credit is given to Reagan for "defeating" Soviet Communism and little is said about the actual people who died for the Muslim cause of defeating the infidels. Also, little is said about the law of unintended consequences, wherein the rise of the radical Muslim mentality was originally fostered via the US strategy by Reagan and his CIA chief William Casey. So in this connection, Bin Laden and 9/11 is a form of "blowback".

The picture painted by Coll of intelligence agents trying to get Bin Laden is curious indeed, since the effort to track him and corner him was very good at times, yet when he could have been caught or killed, the agents backed out or the intelligence agencies seemed paralyzed to follow through. This seems like a fruitful area of study for further books searching for the real truth of this secret history.

Coll's book addresses the usage of the funds to finance the radical groups fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan, however, not much hard information is offered to show exactly who siphoned money to Bin Laden and how much was diverted to his groups(s). The unspoken assumption is that Pakistan's intelligence service, (ISI) was responsible for this diversion. In addition, it seems the author implies the US did not really know which groups were receiving US funds. This is a murky subject area which further research would clarify and make accessible to the American people.

I recommend this book to those interested in this sordid and ironic period of US history. The book is long but well worth the read, since it will impart much enlightenment about CIA behavior and the reader will be armed with a better understanding of what must be done to avoid this kind of catastrophe again.

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5.0étoiles sur 5 Requiem for a Lion, Oct. 20 2008
Par Jack Blatant (Ontario, Canada) - Voir tous mes commentaires
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I've never had the strongest opinion of the intellectual capabilities of Osama Bin Laden, but the events which Coll describes have made me reconsider my opinion. If, as it seems clear, the murder of Ahmed Shah Massoud was intended to coincide with the attacks upon the World Trade Centre towers, it was a stroke of evil genius: bin Laden removing the one man who would stand a chance of guiding the Americans to him even as bin Laden made himself the number one target of the United States. The relationship between Afghanistan and the West is longer and more complex than one book could ever encompass, but Coll does a fantastic job in providing the recent picture.

9/11 has come and gone, and here we are, still in Afghanistan. For years, Brezinski crowed about luring the Soviets into "the Afghan trap." This book clearly explains how the rest of the world has paid the price for this.
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5.0étoiles sur 5 A must read for every Canadian, Déc 30 2006
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As Canada is gripped in the seemingly never-ending "war on terror" in Afghanistan, Coll's Pulitzer Prize winning book provides context for the current political climate by chronicling the 30-year history of the unluckiest country in the world.

The book exposes the failed foreign policies of many former and current US administrations and intelligence agencies in Afghanistan. Coll describes in painstaking detail from the CIA support of the mujahedin against the soviets, to the abandonment of the US after the soviet retreat, the subsequent rise of the Taliban, and finally the creation of a terrorist state in al Qaeda leading up to 9/11.

The failure of the US to create a long-term strategy for Afghanistan and short-term exploitation for US interests has doomed the people of Afghanistan to a lifetime of bloody civil-war. The current lack of a clear and concise long-term plan is what will doom this unfortunate country once again.
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