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082	0	4	_a958.104 _bRAS
100	1		_aRashid, Ahmed
245	1	0	_aTaliban _bmilitant Islam, oil and fundamentalism in Central Asia /
260			_aNew Haven, CT _bYale University Press _c2010
300			_axvii, 319 p. _c; 21 cm.
505	0		_apt. 1. History of the Taliban movement. Kandahar 1994: the origins of the Taliban ; Herat 1995: God's invincible soldiers ; Kabul 1996: commander of the faithful ; Mazar-e-Sharif 1997: massacre in the north ; Bamiyan 1998-99: the never-ending war -- pt. 2. Islam and the Taliban. Challenging Islam: the new-style fundamentalism of the Taliban ; Secret society: the Taliban's political and military organization ; A vanished gender: women, children and Taliban culture ; High on heroin: drugs and the Taliban economy ; Global jihad: the Arab-Afghans and Osama Bin Laden -- pt. 3. The new great game. Dictators and oil barons: the Taliban and Central Asia, Russia, Turkey and Israel ; Romancing the Taliban 1: the battle for pipelines 1994-96 ; Romancing the Taliban 2: the battle for pipelines 1997-99, The USA and the Taliban ; Master or victim: Pakistan's Afghan war ; Shia versus Sunni: Iran and Saudi Arabia ; Conclusion: the future of Afghanistan ; The Taliban resurgent 2000-2009.
650		0	_aIslamic fundamentalism _aTaliban-Afghanistan _vIslam state _vCommander _vTaliban economy _vCentral Asia _vIIMC
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