Taliban [Audiobook]

Correspondent Ahmed Rashid brings the shadowy world of the Taliban, the world's most extreme and radical Islamic organization, into sharp focus in this enormously insightful book. He offers the only authoritative account of the Taliban available to English language readers, explaining the Taliban's rise to power, its impact on Afghanistan and the region, its role in oil and gas company decisions, and the effects of changing American attitudes toward the Taliban. He also describes the new face of Islamic fundamentalism and explains why Afghanistan has become the world center for international terrorism.

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This is the single best book available on the Taliban, the fundamentalist Islamic regime in Afghanistan responsible for harboring the terrorist Osama bin Laden. Ahmed Rashid is a Pakistani journalist who has spent most of his career reporting on the region–he has personally met and interviewed many of the Taliban's shadowy leaders. Taliban was written and published before the massacres of September 11, 2001, yet it is essential reading for anyone who hopes to understand the aftermath of that black day. It includes details on how and why the Taliban came to power, the government's oppression of ordinary citizens (especially women), the heroin trade, oil intrigue, and–in a vitally relevant chapter–bin Laden's sinister rise to power. These pages contain stories of mass slaughter, beheadings, and the Taliban's crushing war against freedom: under Mullah Omar, it has banned everything from kite flying to singing and dancing at weddings. Rashid is for the most part an objective reporter, though his rage sometimes (and understandably) comes to the surface: "The Taliban were right, their interpretation of Islam was right, and everything else was wrong and an expression of human weakness and a lack of piety," he notes with sarcasm. He has produced a compelling portrait of modern evil. –John Miller

Contents | Track titles (25)
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0101 _ Blackstone Audio _ Taliban _ Ahmed Rashid
0102 _ Islam, Oil and The New Great Game in Central Asia
0103 _ Preface _ Read by Nadia May
0104 _ Introduction _ Afghanistan's Holy Warriors
0105 _ Part 1 _ History of the Taliban Movement
0106 _ Ch 01 _ Kandahar 1994 _ The Origins of the Taliban
0202 _ Ch 02 _ Herat 1995 _ God's Invincible Soldiers
0203 _ Ch 03 _ Kabul 1996 _ Commander of the Faithful
0302 _ Ch 04 _ Mazar e Sharif 1997 _ Massacre in the North
0303 _ Ch 05 _ Bamiyan 1998 to 2000 _ The Never Ending War
0402 _ Part 2 _ Islam and the Taliban
0403 _ Ch 06 _ Challenging Islam _ The New Style Fundamentalism of the Taliban
0501 _ Ch 07 _ Secret Society _ The Taliban's Political and Military Organization
0502 _ Ch 08 _ A Vanished Gender _ Women, Children and Taliban Culture
0503 _ Ch 09 _ High on Heroin _ Drugs and the Taliban Economy
0602 _ Ch 10 _ Global Jihad _ The Arab Afghans and Osama Bin Laden
0701 _ Part 3 _ The New Great Game
0702 _ Ch 11 _ Dictators and Oil Barons _ Taliban and Central Asia, Russia, Turkey, Israel
0703 _ Ch 12 _ Romancing the Taliban 1 _ Battle for Pipelines 94 to 96
0802 _ Ch 13 _ Romancing the Taliban 2 _ Battle for Pipelines 97 to 99 _ USA and Taliban
0803 _ Ch 14 _ Master or Victim _ Pakistan's Afghan War
0902 _ Ch 15 _ Shia vs Sunni _ Iran and Saudi Arabia
0903 _ Ch 16 _ Conclusion _ The Future of Afghanistan
1002 _ Appendix _ A Sample of Taliban Decrees
1003 _ Blackstone Audio _ Taliban _ Ahmed Rashid

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