GHOST WARS by Steve Coll ( 9780141020808 ) - Books & Audio Books at Pickabook.co.uk

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Title:

GHOST WARS
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE CIA, AFGHANISTAN AND BIN LADEN

By:

Steve Coll

Format:

Paperback

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ISBN 10:

0141020806

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9780141020808

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Publisher:

PENGUIN BOOKS LTD

Pub. date:

1 March, 2005

Pages:

736

Description:

The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution.

Synopsis:

The news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution.Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed senior US officials and foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story of the CIA's covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, explores how this sowed the seeds of bn Laden's rise, traces how he built his global network and brings to life the dramatic battles within the US government over national security. Above all, he lays bare American intelligence's continual failure to grasp the rising threat of terrrorism in the years leading to 9/11 - and its devastating consequences.

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Penguin Books Ltd

Prizes:

Winner of Pulitzer Prize General Non-Fiction Category 2005

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