Authors: James Fergusson
Tags: #History, #Asia, #General, #Modern, #20th Century
and Pakistan 53–4, 121–2, 123–4
and Taliban suicide bomb campaign 182–3
as Arabs 119, 122, 151, 166 conflation with Taliban 121–31 escape from Afghanistan 154–8 guarantee against 15
IT operation 141–2
Mullah Omar and 118
Petraeus on 192
Shinwari on 339–40
US embassy attacks 118, 128, 130
US missile attack on 119
USS
Cole
attack 142
Zaeef on expelling 236–7
see also
bin Laden, Osama
Albright, Madeleine 55
Ali Sher Khel people 340–2
Alikozai tribe 36
Amanullah, Shah 80–1
American Club, Peshawar 41, 42, 45–6
America; Americans
see
United States
Amin, Mahmud 57
Amir ul-Mu'mineen, Mullah Omar as 42–3, 81, 83, 103, 143, 217, 236–7
Amruddin, Taliban office, Peshawar 47–50
apostasy, Shias executed for 112
'Arab-Afghans', bin Laden and 125
Arabs, Afghans and 126, 208
Arabs, al-Qaida as 119, 122, 151, 166
Arghandiwal, Abdul Hadi 294–300
Ariana Airlines 283
Asharq al-Awsat
(newspaper) 142
Asian Tigers 54
Assange, Julian 377
Atmar, Mohamed Hanif 269
Atta, Mohammed, attack on Mazar 147–8
Australian photographer in Mazar 73–4
Ayub Khan 174
Azimi, Qais, NDS and 270–2
Babar, General Nasirullah 46
Bagram air base
2003 attack 169
British marines at, 154
Bagram air base jail 369
Bahir at 292
Hotak's brother at 319–20
Mullah Abdul-Basit at 188
Mullah Allah Mohammed at 350–3 prisoners mistreated 220–2, 350–3
Zaeef at 220–2
Bahir, Ghairat 292–3, 301
Baligh, Maulawi Inayatullah 85
Balkh University 85
Bamiyan Buddhas 136–40
bandits
in parliment 284–5
southern Afghanistan 24–5, 34–5, 79
Uzbek 178–9
Baradar, Mullah Abdul Ghani, ISI and 322–3
Barakzai, Shukria, and Taliban 17–18
Barakzai dynasty 336
Baru (ex-mujahideen) 26
BBC
Hekmatyar and 307
Karzai on 253
Newsnight
44
Pashto service 34, 307
Bergen, Peter 41
Bhutto, Benazir 38–9, 40
on Taliban 46
Biden, Joe, warns against troops surge 255–6
bin Laden, Osama
and Bamiyan Buddhas 140 and Gulf States tourists 127–8 and Taliban finance 127
at Tora Bora 154, 300, 328, 329
Mullah Omar and 118, 120, 124–31, 142–3
protection 118–19, 129–30
trial negotiations 130–1
see also
al-Qaida
Bismillah (bandit) 35
Blix, Hans 145
Blue Mosque, Mazar-i-Sharif 70–1, 302
Bollywood, Taliban and 76–7
Bonino, Emma, in Kabul 85–6, 93
Bonn Agreement/ Conference 161–3, 171, 279–80, 284
Bor Jan, Mullah 62
Bosnia, Clinton and 24
Brahimi, Lakhdar, UN envoy 87 on Bonn talks 161
on Dasht-i-Leili 153 brandy distillery 98
British
see
UK
Brown, Gordon
and reintegration programme 206
on 'perversion' of Islam 14
on Taliban 122, 123
Browne, Des, on Musa Qala 176–7
Buddhas of Bamiyan 136–40 bureaucracy, Soviet-style 269 burqa, as symbol 55, 81, 84, 283
Bush, Barbara, on Taliban and women55
Bush, George
and Musharraf 157
on Taliban 121
on cheap anti-Taliban campaign 149
on end of major combat 167
Butler, Brigadier Ed 180
Cameron, David, and Obama's strategy385
Camp Bastion 180
MEDCAP programme 175
Camp Five, Guantanamo 223
Camp Nathan Smith 185
Canadians, in Kandahar 172, 185, 186,274
Care International 55, 73 casualties
civilian
Nato attacks 182–3 suicide bombers 183–4
Special Forces operations 227–32
Taliban rulebook on 238
'targeted assassinations' 233
coalition forces 181, 182, 189
ceasefire breaking 82–3
Chak 354–82, 385
Channel 4,
Dispatches
245
Chater, David 270, 272
Chechens 368
Chechnya, Yeltsin and 24
Cheney, Dick, and Kunduz airlift 157
Churchill, Winston,
The Story of the
Malakand Field Force
211
CIA 358
and Hizb-i-Islami 295–6
and Taliban 108
attack plan 146–50
finance, mujahideen 51
independent of ISAF 233–4
'targeted assassinations' 233
'clear, hold and build' US strategy 202–12
Clinton, Bill
and Bosnia 24
and Lewinsky affair 119
Clinton, Hillary
on Taliban and women 55
warned against Karzai 256
'Colonel Imam'
and Mullah Omar 52
and Zaeef 164
kidnapped 54
Colvin, Richard, on NDS torture 274
'comprehensive approach' strategy failure, Helmand 179–80, 202
consensus decisions, Pashtuns 217
constitution
as foreign imposition 162
Harakat and 320–1
Hotak on 316–18
Loya Jirga postponed 171
construction projects, military, wealth from 264–6
corruption issues 189, 249–53
Cowper-Coles, Sir Sherard 313 cricket, Haqqania madrasah 69
Dadullah, Mullah 170
at Kunduz 178
death 234–5
'daisycutter' bomb, Mazar 148
Dar-u-Uloom Haqqania madrasah 68,69
Daru Khan (bandit) 35
Dasht-i-Leili mass grave 153–4
'decapitation' policy, failure 228–35
decrees, implementation issues 102
Defence Ministry, Zaeef and 102–4
depleted uranium ammunition 379, 380
Deobandi movement 66–8
madrasahs, JUI and 165
mosques, Britain 123
Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration programme, Hotak and 319–20
Doran, Jamie,
The Convoy of Death
154
Dost Mohammed 43
Dostum, Abdul Rashid (Uzbek leader) 88, 112–13
CIA-paid attack on Mazar 147–9
Kunduz prisoners massacre 151–3
Dubai
conferences 214, 291–2, 323–4 imports from 126, 127 shopping 262, 350
Durand Line 42, 53, 211, 242
Durand, Sir Mortimer 42
Durrani, Ahmad Shah, Mullah Omar and 43
Dutch, in Uruzgan 172
education
higher, Pashtuns and 298
Islamic, need for, Osman on 132–3
women, Taliban and 94–6, 311–12
Eide, Kai
on Afghan election 254
on leaders 301
Eikenberry, Karl, warns against troops surge 256
Election Complaints Commission, Karzai and 252–3, 282
EU Commission, aid agencies withdrawal 87
Euro Guest House, bombed 195–8
Evans, Maya, High Court action on NDS torture 274
factional allegiance signs 135
Fahim, Marshal, head of KHAD (secret service) 261–2, 267
corruption 260–2
famine, lack of aid 138
Farooqi, Fazel Luqman 288
Feisal, Abdul Rauf 386
feuds, complicate loyalties 177–9
finance, bin Laden and 127
fixer-translators, Kabul 74
Fordham, Michael, on MoD and NDS274
foreign development/ NGO community
and Taliban and women 46–7, 55–6
low post-Taliban aid 158–9
Peshawar 41, 46–7
fortune-tellers 98–100
Frahi, Bernard, on opium production106
Franks, General Tommy, lets bin Laden escape 154
fundamentalism, Karzai and 257
Gall, Carlotta, in Quetta 166
Gandamak Lodge hotel 198–9
Gates, Robert, on Taliban 215
Gereshk 180
Germany, delays in training aid 171–2
Ghani Khan
on bandits 179
on customs and women 60–2, 77
on infiltration 139
on Pashtun childhood 111–12
Ghaus, Mullah Mohammed 110
Ghazi football stadium, judicial killings 87, 89–90
Ghazi Khan, night raid victims 229
Goldsmith, Jemima 37
Gorbachev, Mikhail, troops surge 200
Gouttiere, Thomas 109
on Unocal after embassy attacks 118–19
government
Harakat and 320–1
Karzai 107, 189
unable to form 250–3
Rabbani 81–2
jihad against 42–5
Taliban 72–100, 101–11, 112–13
by consensus 55–6
Hotak and 317–18
on repairing 239
Wardak province 186–8, 355
Guantanamo
Camp Five 223
conditions 222–3
ex-prisoners radicalized by 235, 246–8
Obama's promise to close 246, 321
Zaeef on 164, 218, 221–3
Gul, Hajji Noor 347–8
Gul, Imtiaz, on US policy 215
Gul, Lieutenant-General Hamid, and
'Pakistani Taliban' 52
Gulbahar Shopping Center 262–3
Gulzai, GM 288
Gurkhas
and NDS 273
on Helmand 181
Habibullah, Hajji 85
Hafiz (driver) 356, 357, 358
Halo Trust demining agency 92–3, 106
Haqqani, Jalaluddin 125, 170–1, 182,293
Haqqani, Siraj 170
Haqqani Network 125, 170, 236
Haqqania madrasah 68–9
Harakat-i-Inqilab-i-Islami 313–14, 315–24
Hassani, Khalil Ahmed 'Mullah' 139–40
Hawz-i-Mudat, Taliban checkpoint 34–5
Hazara people 16–17, 28, 59
and higher education 298–9
massacres 112, 114–16
underrepresented at Bonn talks 161
Hazrat Ali 327–8, 332
and bin Laden escape 154
Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin 28, 35, 51, 57, 135, 245, 287–9, 295–7, 300–2
alliance with Rabbani 45
in Mazar 1998 303–8
Karzai and 292–3
on dialogue 305–7
Hellfire missiles 363
Helmand 2003
counter-attack 168
British in 13, 173–82, 184, 190–1, 250, 273, 298, 345
'ink spot' strategy 179–80
Mullah Omar and 165, 168
Operation Moshtaraq 201–7, 317
opium production 107
Helmandi, Mullah Abdul Salaam 134
Herat province 98
banks, Zaeef and 102
Unocal at 108–9
wedding party massacre 228
Heratis, underrepresented at Bonn talks161
heroin users, Afghanistan 107
'High Peace Council' 385–6
highwaymen, southern Afghanistan 24–5, 35
Hindu community, yellow markers 96
Hindu Kotai base, Kandahar 36
Hizb-i-Islami 28, 29, 45–6, 63, 134, 135,245
and Maldives conference 287–92
Hekmatyar on 305
ISI and 51
Karzai and 292–3
Hizb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) 294–300
Hizb-i-Islami Gulbuddin (HIG) 294
Hizb-i-Wahdat 28
Hoh, Matthew 204–5, 348
Holbrooke, Richard 254, 312–13
Hotak, Hajji Musa 315–25, 365
Hotaki dynasty 59
Houbara Bustard 127
House of Commons Foreign Affairs Select Committee 13
Human Rights Watch 112
on Fahim 261
humanitarian daily rations (HDRs), mistaken for bombs 160
Ikhwan militia 304–5
improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 175, 184–5, 190, 208, 245, 357, 362, 363
Imran Khan 37, 38
Independent
, 'The Peace Brought by the Taliban' 72–3
India
and Northern Alliance 163, 165
Karzai and 163
wars over Kashmir 53
Indian casualties, hotel bombing 197–8
Indira Ghandi mother and child clinic, Kabul
85
infiltration, Pashtun and 139
'ink spot' strategy, Helmand 179–80
Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) Pakistan and Afghan peace, Hotak on 322
and Baradar 322
and ceasefire breaking 83
and Hizb-i-Islami 296
and Najibullah murder 63–4
and Taliban 46, 49, 50–4, 163–6
and Zaeef 163–4
international partnership
joint venture contracts 31
7–18
Shinwari on 335, 338
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) 92, 116, 169
International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) 105, 363–4, 373 and ANA 203–5
and NDS 272–4
and Tajiks 235–6, 263
and Taliban arms stockpiling 168
and Taliban 'spectaculars' 185–6, 201
Bonn Agreement and 160–1 collateral damage issues 182–3, 227–8, 253
'condolence fund' payments 227–8 convoys, attacks on 188, 245
in Helmand
see
Helmand in Marjah 205–6, 383
limited deployment 163, 168, 172–3
Nato command 160–1, 169, 171–2
'Regional Command South' 172–3 troops surge 201–12
withdrawal issues 192, 238–9, 286–7
see also
specific bases, forces and operations
internet/ IT use 134, 141–2, 219
invaders, armed foreigners as 284–5, 297
Iran
'diplomats', murder 115, 116
Hekmatyar in 302
influence, Arghandiwal on 298
threatens war 115
Irish model, political settlement 235, 294, 309–10, 386
Islamabad, Red Mosque seige 68
Islamic education, need for, Osman on 132–3
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan's Rules for Mujahideen
237–8
Ismail Khan 102, 110–11, 113
Israel, lost tribes 58–9
Jalalabad 354, 355
bin Laden at 125
in 2010 326–33
Taliban capture 62
US missile attack 119
Jalil, Mirwais 307
Jami'at al-Qarawiyyin madrasah 69
Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI) [Assembly of Islamic Clergy], and Taliban 164–5
Jamiat-i-Islami (Massoud force) 274–6
Jarir, Humayun, and Maldives conference 287–92
jihad
concept and criteria 243–5
counter-attack as 186–8
Hotak on 320
journalists, Hekmatyar and 306–8
Jouvenal, Peter 198
footage of Omar 44
on ceasefire breaking 82
on Kabul brandy distillery 98