Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

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Christina Lamb. Farewell Kabul: From Afghanistan To A More Dangerous World

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

The Leaving

PART I. GETTING IN

1. Rule Number One

2. Sixty Words

3. Making – and Almost Killing – a President

4. Ground Zero

5. Losing bin Laden – the Not So Great Escape

6. A Tale of Two Generals

7. Taliban Central

8. Merchants of Ruin – the Return of the Warlords

9. Theatre of War

10. A Tale of Two Wars

11. Voting With Mullah Omar

PART II. WAR

12. Ambush

13. Bringing Dolphins to Helmand

14. Tethered Goats

15. The President in His Bloody Palace

16. Whose Side Are You On?

17. The Snake Bites Back

18. The Weathermen of Kandahar

19. We’ll Always Have Kabul

20. Death of a Poet

21. Meeting Colonel Imam

PART III. THE GOOD WAR

22. The View From Washington

23. All About the Politics

24. The Butcher of Mumbai

25. Losing the Moral High Ground in Margaritaville

26. Chairman Mullen and the Cadillac of the Skies

PART IV. GETTING OUT

27. Killing bin Laden

Postscript: War Never Leaves You

Appendix: The Costs of War

Picture Section

Acknowledgements

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

Also by Christina Lamb

About the Author

About the Publisher

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General Douglas MacArthur

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The evening I returned to Quetta I went to Ahmed Wali’s house. We spoke to Karzai on the satellite phone, and he told me some of the things he had seen crossing the border. I got back to the Serena just before the 9 p.m. curfew, planning to write my story for my paper the next day.

I am lucky to sleep well even in war zones, and was deeply asleep when around 2 a.m. I was woken by pounding on my door. Through the spyhole I could see the hotel’s duty manager with a group of five men. Wearing grey shalwar kamiz and aviator glasses even at night, they were instantly identifiable as ISI.

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