The Afghan Solution: The Inside Story of Abdul Haq, the CIA and How Western Hubris Lost Afghanistan [Hardcover]

CONTENTS Author's Note Acknowledgements Maps Dramatis Personae Principal characters of the narrative and their positions in 2001 Chronology Introduction Chapter One The 'Peace versus Justice' Strategy Kabul, June 2002 Chapter Two Re-igniting Fundamentalism Kabul, July - October 2002 Chapter Three The Poetess of Jalalabad Jalalabad, October 2002 Chapter Four 'I'd Rather be a Lion for a Day, than a Jackal all my Life' Jalalabad, October 2002 Chapter Five A 'Cataclysmic Event for the West' Peshawar, October 2002 Chapter Six The 'Lion of Kabul' Afghanistan, 1980s Chapter Seven 'These Days, We Don't know who the Enemy is'. Jalalabad, 2002 Chapter Eight 'Afghanistan will be the World's Largest Poppy Field' Jalalabad, Shinwar and Kabul, May 2003 Chapter Nine 'First you call us Freedom Fighters, now Warlords' Herat and Jalalabad, May 2003 Chapter Ten Playing the al-Qaeda Card Jalalabad, Goste and Fatemena, August 2003 Chapter Eleven'No-one Could Hold a Candle to him' - the Hurdles Faced by a Private US Effort to Support Abdul Haq (Part I) Jalalabad, August 2003 Chapter Twelve A Perspective on British Post-September 11 Strategy and Intelligence - The UK Haq Effort (Part I) London, September 2003 Chapter Thirteen 'He Would have Begun a Revolution, That's Why They Killed him so Fast' - A Taliban Interior Minister Speaks Kabul, January 2004 Chapter Fourteen 'Camp Followers' in Kabul Kabul and Jalalabad, January 2004 - January 2005 Chapter Fifteen The King's Group and 'Rome' Kabul, December 2004 Chapter Sixteen From Jihadi Commanders to Taliban Kabul, Faizabad and Jalalabad, 2004. Chapter Seventeen Return to Kandahar Kandahar, 2005 Chapter Eighteen Governance and Traditional Structures Jalalabad, 2004. Chapter Nineteen A Further Perspective on British Post-September 11 Intelligence - The UK Haq Effort (Part II) London and Geneva, 2009 Chapter Twenty When did the US Really Choose Karzai? - A Private US effort to Support Abdul Haq (Part II) Geneva, July 2009 Chapter Twenty-One Abdul Haq and CIA Strategy in Afghanistan Chapter Twenty-TwoConclusions and Ways Forward Appendices Endnotes Accronyms Glossary Bibliography