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Bette Dam
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Netherlands
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August 2014
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Looking for the Enemy: Mullah Omar and the Unknown Taliban
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2019
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A Man and a Motorcycle: How Hamid Karzai Came to Power
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2009
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The Secret Life of Mulla Umar
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“Thanks in part to his support of the Taliban, Karzai became a candidate for the position of United Nations ambassador for the Taliban administration.24 It was a tit-for-tat deal. His father, Abdul Ahad Karzai, had supported these tribally-related Taliban in early meetings in 1994 in Quetta and in Kandahar, and wanted something in return.”
― A Man and a Motorcycle: How Hamid Karzai Came to Power
― A Man and a Motorcycle: How Hamid Karzai Came to Power
“But the author of the letter told me it was never sent to the UN headquarters in New York. “Mullah Omar had problems with trusting Hamid Karzai. He had too many links with the foreigners.” Also staff members in the ministry had doubts. “He is working for the CIA, I am sure”, they assumed.26”
― A Man and a Motorcycle: How Hamid Karzai Came to Power
― A Man and a Motorcycle: How Hamid Karzai Came to Power
“The CIA team in the north expected Washington to take action earlier.58 One Taliban leader or al-Qaeda operative after the next was fleeing to Pakistan. There had been some delay at first as Pakistan tried to persuade its old ally Mullah Omar to hand bin Laden over peacefully. In the mean time Mullah Omar secretly had tried to arrange with the CIA Bin Laden’s transfer to a neutral third country, but Washington demanded an uncondtioonal handover. For two days, leading Pakistanis and Taliban leaders conferred about the extradition. While the Americans had high hopes, messengers from Pakistani president Musharraf did the opposite. They warned Mullah Omar of the plans of the US to invade, so he could prepare himself. Within the ISI (the Pakistani secret service) chaos reigned. Some helped the Americans by pointing out possible targets while others swiftly transferred truckloads of weapons, munitions and fuel to Kandahar to reinforce the Taliban”
― A Man and a Motorcycle: How Hamid Karzai Came to Power
― A Man and a Motorcycle: How Hamid Karzai Came to Power
