Afghanistan by Barnett Rubin/Four sources on Afghanistan

[Michael Pugliese]

Short of reading any or all of these three books below, this longish article
looks like a good primer.
http://www.unhcr.ch/refworld/country/writenet/wriafg03.htm
Michael Pugliese
P.S. Make that four books. I remember Sam Pawlett a while back saying the
book by John Cooley published by Pluto Press is good on the CIA and bin
Laden.

    "Diego Cordovez and
Selig S. Harrison, Out of Afghanistan: The Inside Story of the Soviet
Withdrawal (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
http://www.oup.co.uk/isbn/0-19-506294-9

   "TALIBAN:
Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia, " by Ahmed Rashid.
http://www.google.com/search?client=googlet&q=Ahmed%20Rashid
http://www.yale.edu/yup/books/083408.htm
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300083408/ref=ase_theatlanticmonthA/
103-8888504-1609424

 Unholy Wars
by John K. Cooley
https://secure.metronet.co.uk/pluto/cgi-bin/web_store/web_store.cgi?sc_query
_isbn=0745316913

http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:xHHy9j13Qm8:www.afghan-web.com/books/bo
oks.html+Out+of+Afghanistan:+The+Inside+Story+of+the+Soviet&hl=en
The Tragedy of Afghanistan : A First-Hand Account
Author: Raja Anwar, Fred Halliday, Khalid Hasan (Translator)
Publisher: Verso Books
http://www.google.com/search?q=The+Tragedy+of+Afghanistan+%3A+A+First-Hand+A
ccount+&btnG=Google+Search
http://www.versobooks.com/books/ab/anwar_bhutto.shtml