Now that really deserves a big HEH. The Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence Agency. http://www.google.com/search?q=ISI+Afghan
Have you read nothing about the Afghan war, the 80's mujahedeen, the CIA, KSA, the PRC/CCP (See the John Cooley book on al-Quaeda, published by Pluto, blurbed by Edward Said, for the chapter on the PRC/CCP assistance, military and economic to the anti-Soviet Afghan mujahedeen), and the Pakistani intelligence service? Not that I'm asking you to slog through (a very readable, but, long text), "Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, " by Steve Coll of the WaPo.
The other ISI has a forthcoming book, "Obtuse ex-Maoist Profs. of English Who Hold Grudges." http://www.isi.org/journals.html http://www.isi.org/journals/modern_age.html , "Ezra Pound and MaoZeDong: Who Is the Better Poet?" http://www.isi.org/books/index.aspx ew yuck, "Book of the Month It Takes a Family Conservatism and the Common Good Written by Rick Santorum
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