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Cut adrift after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Afghanistan has become a political no-man's-land. Historically an artifical "buffer state", Afghanistan has in recent years become the geopolitical playground of a variety of competitng interests - the Americans, the Saudis, Russians and Pakistanis, let alone drug barons, arms dealers and oil interests.
Afghanistan's unstable and problematic history is now further complicated by the emergence of the Taliban - one of the most conservative and least understood Islamic movements in the world.The Taliban continues to grab the headlines, most notably for their appalling treatment of women, and their connections to Osama bin Laden.
Investigative journalist Michael Griffin draws numerous interviews with key protganists, and offers a fasccinating eyewitness picture drawn from three extensive trips to Afghanistan. He paints the fullest picture yet of the Taliban movement, its origins, beliefs, religious and political ethos, and the character and impact of its particular brand of fundamentalism. In the process he reveals the controversial nature of the Taliban's links with the CIA, Saudi Arabia and other vested interests. Who is to blame for the present situation? What conspiracies and collusions led to this pass? The author's conclusion reveals his view of where the "smoking gun" is pointed.
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REVEALING.......2007-05-12
Not being as grammatically proficient as some of the other reviewists, I can only add my observation.
While being a difficult book to read, not easy flowing as in a novel, the subject of this book is so well researched and packed with facts, that slower reading is required to assimilate all the info.
To me Afghanistan has always been a vague cauldron of politics.
Michael Griffin's book has opened this 'mystery' of politics by explaining in detail the interaction of all neighboring countries, especially Pakistan who plays a leading role in the politics of the area and the Taliban.
Very informative reading. If you are interested in politics read it, if not read Harry Potter.
Highly recomended, most intelligent book I've read in a decade.
Some good stuff on Afghanistan.......2001-11-30
There is some good stuff in this book about America's new friends in the war for freedom and against terrorism, the Northern Alliance. I've noticed recently some commentators saying that the Northern Alliance leaders had nothing to do with the massive bloodshed in Afghanistan from 1992-96 and that was all the fault of Gullubdin Heckmatyar. Well, according to this book Heckmatyar's organization received through Pakistan about half of all the money funnled by the West and the reactionary Arab regimes into the Jihad against the Soviet Union in the 80's. He the guy wholikes to throw acid in women's faces who don't wear the burkha and has been involved in the drug trade, though his influence has been reduced dramatically in the past few years. After the communist government was overthrown in April 1992, Heckmatyar began massively bombarding civillians in Kabul. President Rabbani made him prime minister of his government in mid-93 but he took to bombarding Kabul again on Janary 1st 1994 along with general Rashid Dostum and the Shiite group Hizb-i-Wahdat, two of the prominent members of the current Northern Alliance. The Taliban drove them away in February 1995 shortly before they began their own massive bombardment of Kabul. In May 1996 Rabbani, who recently reinstalled himself in Kabul, once again made Heckmatyar prime minister and bans on certain forms of entertainment were introduced, as well as Sharia law and Islamic dress code and so on.
Other mass killings are described in this book like those by like the current northern alliance forces of Ahmad Massoud's army in the Shia Hazarajat and Abdul Malik, whose forces defected from Dostum's government to allow the Taliban to capture Mazar-i-Sharif in May 1997 but almost immediately turned against the Taliban and conducted a Saddam Hussein-like massacre of Taliban prisoners of war and it seems, thousands of civillians.
Of course it is hard to reach the utter barbarism of the Taliban. There is no need to repeat the horrific details. They emerged as a group friends in Kandahar province in late 94' who gained noteriety for fierce piety and honesty in contrast to the former Mujahadeen warlords whose forces were running around looting and raping and killing everybody. The U.S. clearly hoped that the efforts of Unocal to make arrangements with the Taliban leaders for a trans-Afghanistan oil pipeline from Turkmenistan would succeed. The dictator of Turkmenistan had switched allegiances from Bridas of Argentina to Unocal. After the whole thing blew up and they were left with a regime that was sheltering Osama Bin Laden, the monster that the Reagan adminstration helped create in the 80's, and serving as a conduit for drug smugglers (The Northern Alliance people are very heavy into that business also though Griffin does not say this).
Al Quaida is a very decentralized organization. Bin Laden may not have known about Sept 11. The evidence presented for his involvement by the British government has been rather thin. Griffin says that the evidence for him being involved in the attacks on the U.S. embassies in August 1998 and his relationship to the Al Shifa medicine plant in the Sudan which Clinton blew up is very tenuous. (...)
The prose style in this book is in parts really leaden. One gets the feeling that the book as a whole was not edited very well.
swamped.......2001-11-13
The first few pages of this book are informative, but in the same way a few pages on europe might summarize its history from the 16th century onward. I was so overwhelmed that I gave up.
Insightful!.......2001-10-20
Don't look here for flowery prose; this is an academic accounting of the modern history of Afghanistan and the origins of the Taliban movement. In a flood of chronological detail, Michael Griffin traces the political evolution (or devolution) of the country from the 1973 fall of King Zahir Shah, through Soviet occupation and horrifying civil war, to the birth and victory of the Taliban. Playing a central role in this history is Osama Bin Laden, whose presence in Afghanistan severely muddied an already bleak environment. Griffin is even-handed in his analysis - misogynistic Taliban, expansionist Pakistanis and disingenuous U.S. administrations all receive sharp criticism. We [...] strongly recommend this clear-headed history of a now critical region to all readers.
War children, it's just a shot away, it's just a shot away.......2001-09-28
Michael Griffin has stitched together a narrative on the Taliban movement from literally hundreds of local and international news reports. Much of his material consists of ýcomments on commentsý and rumor and innuendo, all fused into a reality that provides the reader with a book at once informative, and also hyperbolic. Indeed the civilized world will be put more than ill at ease by the authorýs description of the barbaric behavior engaged in by a collection of factions, all of who have played some role in the rise of the Taliban.
In a real sense it's as if the competing tribes are behaving like some turbaned group of Mafia families playing a round robin playoff in a deadly game of tissue damage. The goal is to decide who will rule the money flows from the proposed trans Caucausus and central Asian pipelines that will run from the world's largest oil reserves in Azerbaijan, Kazakstan and Turkmenstan. Follow the money and overlay the story with the imposition of the Taliban's idea of Islamic law and you have the picture. Like most ruling eliteýs they set rules for others that they themselves only hint at following.
The author provides you with all the geopolitical drama of the constantly shifting tribal and religious alliances which will determine Afghanistanýs fate. This tale differs little, except in style, with the contrast between a society that builds and a society that destroys. What has the Taliban built? Contrast this with their destruction of the Bhuddist sculptures of Bamiyan, their denial of basic education to the people, their grisley public amputations and inhumane executions of those who disagree with their religious doctrine. For the politically correct they donýt treat their women very well either. Indeed they've overseen a destruction of their own socio-economic sphere of the world.
Balint Vazsonyi's book "America's 30 years war" is instructive in comparing societies that engage in "building up" with those that engage in "tearing down". Abe Lincoln once said that there are two ways to have the biggest house in town; build it or tear everyone else's down. Ipso the attack on America re the WTC and the Pentagon.
When America withdrew from the Afghani theatre after the fall of the USSR, the Taliban won in their Mafioso version of "going to the mattresses". This book gives you all the available details. It's best to remember that all wars seem to be fought over money in the name of religion. In that sense this conflict appears to be no different.
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Title: Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan.(Review)
Author: Thomas Withington
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Volume: 57
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John Hercules Po's kindergarten class is made up of 19 girls . . . and him. His older brother warns him not to let all those girls turn him into a sissy, but as John Hercules Po discovers, he needn't worry. As he and the girls let their imaginations run wild during recess, they end up digging all the way to The Great Wall of China, floating on the Amazon river, singing to the Man on the Moon, and racing a car 600 miles per hour.
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19 girls and me.......2007-06-08
This book was read to elementary students grades k-6, every one of the students loved this book and requested it be read again the very next week. We discussed the pictures (first gray and then color when playing and at the end), the connections with siblings and finally friendships. I highly recommend this book.
A Delightful Story About Friendship.......2007-01-01
19 Girls and Me is a story of a kindergartener named John Hercules Po who finds himself in a class of nineteen girls. He is the only boy. His brother worries that he will become "sissified" from playing with all of those girls. In the end, everybody realizes that playing together can be a lot of fun.
19 Girls and Me is a delightful story that shows kids that it is okay for girls and boys to play together. Girls won't become tomboys just because they are playing with boys, and boys won't become sissies just because they are playing with girls. Everyone can get along and have a good time.
My five-year-old daughter likes this story. She also enjoys looking at all of the details in Steven Salerno's playful illustrations.
19 Girls and Me + Me + My Daughter = FUN!.......2006-12-19
I love this book for a number of reasons, not the least of which is that my daughter, in first grade, totally digs the story of John Hercules Po and his adventures with his 19 friends in Mrs. Ray's Kindergarten--19 friends who just happen to be GIRLS! The repetition is fun, and the imaginative adventures that the kids think up delight both of us! I've already taken the book to school twice and read it in a few different classes, and the kids eyes are big--and their smiles are bigger--as I regale them with the developing friendship between John Hercules Po and his 19 new friends! The book imparts an excellent message without clobbering the reader over the head with it--nicely done! Salerno's illustrations add to the fun!
excellent picture book.......2006-10-31
19 Girls and Me is a story for both girls and boys. Kids will enjoy reading about the wonderful adventures John Hercules Po and his new friends have at recess each day. In addition to a great story, there are glimpses into places around the world that may teach kids a thing or two. This is a book that kids will enjoy again and again.
Clever story - wonderful illustrations.......2006-09-30
John Hercules Po - can his name get any better? John Hercules has a great imagination and takes his all-female classmates on wonderful adventures during recess. But playing with girls can elicit name-calling from brothers. This is a very enjoyable ride of a picture book with a satisfying ending and illustrations that lushly depict the imaginary world while the real world of school remains dull and drab. Great for entering kindergarteners, early grades and a definite read over and over book!
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Autumn leaves fall gently and metaphorically in these stories robustly resonating with timeless yearning. In lyrical, word picture prose, Jesse Earle Bowden distinctly enlivens indelible characters and their episodic seasons. In wondrous meditations, he remembers Pearl Harbor, "Going Jookin," The Goat Philosophy": "Fatal Shadows" for three Alabamians enduring Gettysburg and Chickamauga. In six fictional stories, Bowden recreates one of Florida's last public hangings, a deadly Choctawhatchee River gun battllle, memories of "The Gopherpuller"; mystery man with the Hidden Scar," and many more stories.
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Embrace an Autumnal Heart.......2005-09-22
After almost a decade, Earle Bowden returned to writing about
rural Northwest Florida. "Embrace an Autumnal Heart" begins with
nostalgic rememberances of the author's childhood in the 30s and
40s in the community of Altha 16 miles south of Marianna, Florida.
His series of stories under the caption Fiction have some
factual basises.My two favorites areThe murder of federal revenue agent "Pistol Pete" Bowden (no relation to the author)and the story of the truck driver whose load was a coffin with a newly executed prisoner being transported to his home town for burial is a classic as the driver is arrested because the sheriff figured the coffin was loaded with moonshine whisky. It took the
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Rosa island. Ft Pickens is on Sanata Rosa Island and may have been the location where the war actually began. It is a cause celebre in Pensacola and since Hurricane Kathina will not be visted by car for a long time.
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James and western singer Hank Locklin.
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Embrace An Autumnal Heart.......2004-01-18
Jesse Earle Bowden's latest book, EMBRACE AN AUTUMNAL HEART, is his bet yet. With the precision of the poet's quill, he captures the essence of life as seen from the J.W. Bowden Grocery Story in Chipola Country of Northwest Florida. He shares his memories of the down-home folks who always have time to invite you in to set a spell. From the backwoods gopher puller who catches land turtles for food, to the picutesque icehouse that provides 50-pound blocks of ice for those who don't have refrigerators, life flows like the currents of the Chipola and Apalachicola Rivers that run through the county.
His recollections of World War II from the vantage point of a country boy on the edge of his teens, will trigger your own long forgotten memories of that era.
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Embrace an Autumnal Heart.......2003-12-22
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