Afghanistan (72 page)

Karzai, Walid,
42
,
201

Kennan, George,
333

Kerry-Lugar bill,
267
,
285
,
364–67

Khailzad, Zalmay,
68
,
157

Khalis, Younis,
32
,
63
,
138–39

Khan, Haji Juma,
201

Khan, Ismail,
66
,
157
,
217
,
265
,
275

Kharokhail, Massoud,
67–68
,
155
,
229
,
242
,
325
,
356

Khattak, Afrasiab,
265

Kilcullen, David,
100

Ki-Moon, Ban,
294

Kipling, Rudyard,
130

Kiyani, Ashfaq Pervez,
267–68

Kukikhel, Ahmad Khan,
259

L

Lafraie, Najibullah,
212

Laghmani, Abdullah,
307

Lamb, Graham,
325

lands

and ethnolinguistic divisions,
25–30

land rights,
221–23

and people,
21–25

in vortex,
19–103

legitimacy of conflicts,
36–39

Lockhart, Clare,
333

M

Mahmoud, Sufi Shah,
262

Mahnken, Tom,
324

Malik, Rahman,
261–62

Manawi, Fazel Ahmad,
197

Manningham-Butler, Eliza,
117

Mansur, Maulavi Abdul Latif,
138

Maples, Michael D.,
119

maps, vi—vii

Massoud, Ahmad Shah,
32
,
51–54
,
66–69
,
92–94
,
120–22
,
140–41
,
194
,
207
,
279
,
387

Massoud, Behtullah,
269

Mazlumyar, Ali Shah,
179

McChrystal, Stanley,
146
,
156
,
294
,
304
,
315
,
320
,
328
,
330
,
340
,
356
,
375–79

McGonville, James C.,
315
,
353
,
357

McKiernan, David,
294
,
375

McNiece, Patrick,
103
,
119
,
133
,
137
,
142
,
164
,
166
,
265
,
276–77

Medley, Dominic,
315

Mehsud, Abdullah,
249

Mehsud, Behtullah,
63
,
70
,
79–80
,
136
,
249
,
254–59
,
264–65
,
269

Mehsud, Hakimullah,
265

Mehsud, Qari Hussein Raess,
265

Mehsud, Rehman,
265

Milley, Mark,
99
,
139
,
147–48
,
305
,
312
,
320
,
322

Milovic, Zoran,
163
,
357

Mir, Haroun,
194

modernity,
1–2
,
32–33
,
208–10
,
241

Mohammed, Baz,
305

Mohammed, Maulana Sufi,
389

Mohammed, Nek,
248–49
,
252

Mohammed, Sufi,
256

Mohammedi, Mohammed Nabi,
138

Mojadidi, Sayid Sibghatullah,
35
,
331

Mujahid, Anwar-ul-Haq,
139–40

Mullen, Mike,
297

Musharraf government,
95
,
98–99
,
248
,
257
,
281
,
301
,
365
,
388

Musharraf, Pervez,
95–101
,
125
,
150
,
248
,
252
,
267–71
,
280–86
,
388

Mu’tasim, Mullah Agha Jan,
138

N

Najibullah regime,
57
,
69–70
,
216
,
385

Namdar, Haji,
258–59

narcotics trafficking,
170–86

countering,
179–86

impact of,
177–79

and insurgency,
170–86

and options,
181–83

threats from,
172–79

Nazir, Maulavi,
258
,
264

Negroponte, John,
302

Nikpai, Ruhollah,
188

Noorzai, Haji Bashir,
201

Novak, Michael,
199

O

Obama administration,
123
,
133
,
269–71
,
274
,
304
,
366
,
375–81

Obama, Barack,
240
,
285
,
375–76
,
386

Olson, Eric,
302

Omar, Maulavi,
257

Omar, Mullah,
2
,
13
,
38
,
49
,
69–70
,
85–86
,
102
,
136–41
,
144
,
150
,
165
,
173
,
273

outsiders,
235–36

P

Pakistan

aid to,
364–67

future of,
388–90

influence on,
270–80

insurgents in,
244–87

map of, vi—vii

policy of,
90–100

strategy of,
100–103

threat to,
124–26
,
283–87

in vortex,
71–76

Pakistani insurgency,
244–87

countering,
263–68

fights with,
261–63

ongoing insurgency,
268–70

responding to,
257–61

rise of,
247–51

spread of,
251–57

patron—client relationships,
46–50
,
55
,
189
,
218

people

and ethnolinguistic divisions,
25–30

faith of,
30–36

and land,
21–25

in vortex,
61–88

Peters, Gretchen,
168
,
174
,
177

Petraeus, David,
133
,
143
,
151
,
167–68
,
183–84
,
236
,
240
,
266
,
294
,
313
,
324–25
,
327
,
357
,
366

political leadership,
213–15

Pound, Ezra,
1–5

power

and institutions,
39–44

state power,
44–47
,
65–68

and warlords,
215–19

Princip, Gavrilo,
3–4

Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs),
354–58

Pushtuns

governance of,
76–81

neighbors of,
68–71

and state power,
65–68

world of,
64–65

Q

Qabir, Abdul,
138

qawms,
25
,
31
,
35
,
44–45
,
50–52
,
77
,
218
,
348
,
370

R

Rabbani, Burnhaddin,
32

Rahimi, Mohammed Asif,
306

Rahman, Abdur,
30
,
40
,
71
,
146
,
209
,
211
,
307

Rahman, Malik,
261–62

Rahman, Qazi Zia,
260

Rashid, Ahmed,
115
,
253
,
287

Rasmussen, Anders Fogh,
381

reconstruction projects,
333–67

Registani, Saleh,
189
,
240
,
311
,
327

Rehman, Khalil,
264

religious conflicts,
194–99

Riedel, Bruce,
114

Rodriguez, David,
295

Rogers, Will,
368

Rohde, David,
142

Rowswell, Ben,
320

S

Said, Shaikh,
120

Saikal, Mahmoud,
54

Salam, Mullah,
151

Saleh, Amrullah,
306

Sandeman, Robert,
61

security forces,
309–23

self-defense,
323–28

Shaefer, Teresita,
246
,
267

Sharif, Nawaz,
268
,
270
,
280

Sherzai, Gul Agha,
145

Shinwari, Faisal Ahmad,
196–97

Smith, Adam,
244

special operation forces (SOF),
304–6

Special Operations Command (SOCOM),
305

Stanekzai, Mohamed Mahmud,
99

state power,
44–47
,
65–68

T

takfir,
2
,
85
,
112
,
114
,
126–27
,
331

Taliban in Afghanistan

post-2001,
86–88
,
136–39

pre-2001,
136–39

rise of,
81–86

technology,
16
,
33
,
111
,
118
,
135
,
255
,
306
,
343

terrorism

networked terrorism,
108–11

threat to Afghanistan,
119–24

threat to Pakistan,
124–26

threats from vortex,
105–287

transnational terrorism,
107–29

timeline of Afghanistan,
xvii—xxii

totalitarians,
1–2
,
197
,
225
,
233
,
329

transnational terrorism,
107–29

U

United States, role of,
270–80
,
374–81
,
390–95

V

Varughese, George,
239

vortex.
See also
Afghanistan; Pakistan

born in,
81–86

creating,
76–81
,
90–95

dwellers in,
61–88

lands in,
19–103

out of,
1–17

shaping,
86–88

threats from,
105–287

transnational terror from,
114–19

W

Wahid, Mullah Abdul,
222

war ideas,
111–14

Ward, Mark,
309
,
344
,
356–57
,
359
,
362

Wardak, Rahim,
153
,
199
,
291
,
298
,
306
,
310
,
312
,
327

warlords,
52–54
,
215–19

water rights,
221–23

Waziristan insurgency,
263–68

Weber, Max,
11

Weinbaum, Marvin,
287

Winslet, Kate,
228

Z

Zahir, King,
209
,
213
,
278
,
340
,
347
,
393

Zaihuddin, Qari,
264
,
265

Zardari, Asif Ali,
262
,
268
,
271
,
274
,
281
,
364
,
388

Zia, Eshan,
43
,
46
,
215
,
242
,
336
,
363

Zia, ul Haq,
73–74
,
77
,
79

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