Hints and tips:
...Khan went on to fight the Taliban in the 1990s and served as a governor during the US-backed administration of Hamid Karzai. Jihad, he told me, is a Muslim’s duty....
...Najafizada is agonising about friends and colleagues. Every city has fallen. As we speak, Talibs are filtering into Kabul uncontested....
...Mr Anwar’s years in prison helped make him a symbol of democratic resistance at home and abroad, where he counts Al Gore, the former US vice-president, as a friend....
...US investigators are probing New York property deals suspected of being linked to Mr Aziz and his friend Jho Low as part of a wider inquiry. Both men deny any wrongdoing....
...Much of this violence has been perpetrated by Isis or al-Qaeda....
...Three years on, they installed Hamid Karzai as president, planted a western-style democracy in the unpromising soil of Afghanistan’s tribal politics and set about trying to modernise the country’s economy...
...In Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2007), the Ivy League-educated Pakistani narrator vehemently rejects his role as a “janissary” of American capitalism....
...hosted al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden....
...This timely survey records old favourites as well as some new gardens. The next book will, I hope, have more startling entries in both categories....
...Hamid Karzai’s government is irredeemably corrupt and as mistrusted by many ordinary Afghans as foreigners....
...There are plenty of people killing Pakistanis in their thousands,” Hamid says. “Every year, as many Pakistanis die as Americans died on September 11th from terrorism....
...Mr Elyazghi’s friends tried to convince him to join a brigade, get an identification card as a thwar, or revolutionary, and collect up to $500 a month....
...The settlements were announced after Bisher al-Rawi, Jamil el Banna, Richard Belmar, Omar Deghayes, Binyam Mohamed and Martin Mubanga led a High Court case against five government departments including MI5...
...Three months before the next parliamentary elections, Egyptian television has been running a nightly series called Al-Gama’a – or “The Group” – tracing the history of the Brotherhood as founded in 1928 by...
...Presently, some four other former detainees besides Binyam Mohamed – Bisher al-Rawi, an Iraqi and British resident; Jamil el-Banna, a Jordanian with refugee status; Richard Belmar, a British citizen and...
...While vowing a “partnership with Pakistan …built on a foundation of mutual interests, mutual respect, and mutual trust”, Mr Obama identified the country as the location of an al-Qaeda safe haven....
...As we know, these men belonged to al Qaeda – a group of extremists who have distorted and defiled Islam, one of the world’s great religions, to justify the slaughter of innocents....
...The British Secret Intelligence Service runs a good but as usual modest operation, while the CIA’s big station focuses upon al-Qaeda rather than Afghan factional issues....
...Khatami’s government hated the Taliban, opposed al-Qaeda and pledged twice as much as America’s paltry $290m for rebuilding Afghanistan at a donor conference the next year....
...He knows nothing of “Saudi-isation”. Saudi Arabia is a “close friend” and has been playing a “positive role”....
...Mr Blair met with a number of British muslim leaders as well as Afghan leader Hamid Karzai....
...Next, we will march on Herat, from three directions: Zahir from the north, Amanullah and his Taliban friends from the south and Chief Abdul Salam and Governor Ibrahim from here in the east....
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