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Coll, Steve.

Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001 / Steve Coll.

Unabridged.

[Ashland, OR] : Blackstone Audio, Inc., ℗2011.

21 audio discs (approximately 27 hr.) ; 4 3/4 in.

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To what extent did America's best intelligence analysts grasp the rising threat of Islamist radicalism? Who tried to stop bin Laden and why did they fail? Comprehensively and for the first time, this Pulitzer Prize-winning work by journalist Steve Coll recounts the history of the covert wars in Afghanistan that fueled Islamic militancy and sowed the seeds of the September 11 attacks. Based on scrupulous research and firsthand accounts by key government, intelligence, and military personnel both foreign and American, Ghost Wars details the secret history of the CIA's role in Afghanistan, the rise of the Taliban, the emergence of bin Laden, and the efforts by US forces to find and assassinate bin Laden in Afghanistan.

Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011.

United States. Central Intelligence Agency.

Afghanistan -- History -- 1989-2001.

Afghanistan -- History -- Soviet occupation, 1979-1989.

Audiobooks.

Hillgartner, Malcolm.

Penguin Group.

Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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Duration: 27:00:00.

"Tracks Every 3 Minutes."

Produced by Penguin Group (USA), ℗2011.

Read by Malcolm Hillgartner.

Prologue: Accounts receivable, September 1996 -- Blood brothers : November 1979 to February 1989: We're going to die here ; Lenin taught us ; Go raise hell ; I loved Osama ; Don't make it our war ; Who is this Massoud? ; The terrorists will own the world ; Inshallah, you will know my plans ; We won -- The one-eyed man was king : March 1989 to December 1997: Serious risks ; A rogue elephant ; We are in danger ; A friend of your enemy ; Maintain a prudent distance ; A new generation ; Slowly, slowly sucked into it ; Dangling the carrot ; We couldn't indict him ; We're keeping these Stingers ; Does America need the CIA? -- The distant enemy : January 1989 to September 10, 2001. 21: You are to capture him alive ; The kingdom's interest ; We are at war ; Let's just blow the thing up ; The Manson family ; The unit disappeared ; You crazy white guys ; Is there any policy? ; Daring me to kill them ; What face will Omar show to God? ; Many Americans are going to die ; What an unlucky country.

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