Hotel Taliban -- Nation of exiles -- A road less traveled -- Discretion and valor -- The great game -- Mixed motives -- Ghosts of the Khyber -- First blood -- Crossing paths -- End game -- Pacho in Kabul -- Post-mortem -- Refugees and Talibs -- Come together -- Jalrez or bust -- Dead soldiers -- Smoke on the border -- Siege of Jalalabad -- 'Two photo' -- Jalalabad roadshow -- Lost in space -- The Arab Afghans -- Noor Mohammed -- The Saddam connection -- Going home -- The civil war -- Back through the looking glass -- Talibanistan -- The searchers -- Pakistan, India and the bomb -- Routes of coincidence -- Caravans to Kabul -- Tora Bora -- Kill the messengers -- Prisoners of tor -- 9/11 revisited -- For the record -- Kabul in the wake -- Pul-i-charki -- Signs of life -- Roots of terror -- The other Pakistan -- Return to Ushmen Tangi
Summary
A personal journey from naiveté to awareness in an ancient land of stark beauty and wartime devastation
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-277) and index