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[0] checkbox [#] position [cover] cover [title] title Confessions of a Mullah Warrior [author] author Farivar, Masood [isbn] isbn 0871139820 [isbn13] isbn13 9780871139825 [asin] asin [num pages] num pages 320 pp [avg rating] avg rating 3.06 [num ratings] num ratings 63 [date pub] date pub Mar 01, 2009 [date pub (ed.)] date pub edition Mar 03, 2009 [rating] Lucas's rating 3 of 5 stars [my rating] my rating 1 of 5 stars2 of 5 stars3 of 5 stars4 of 5 stars5 of 5 stars add to shelves [notes] notes Notes are private! [recommender] recommender none [comments] comments 0 [votes] votes 0 [read count] # times read 1 [date started] date started not set [date read] date read Mar 10, 2010 [date added] date added Mar 10, 2010 [date purchased] date purchased [owned] owned [purchase location] purchase location [condition] condition [format] format Hardcover [29] actions view [review] 
review The title is even more sensationalist than 'Kill Bin Laden' but that was much more fitting than this. The author is too young for most of the anti-Sov The title is even more sensationalist than 'Kill Bin Laden' but that was much more fitting than this. The author is too young for most of the anti-Soviet jihad, seeing only a few years of fighting at the very end, and after the withdrawal leaves Afghanistan to go to school in the U.S. where he stays for most of the 90's except for a brief visit home. The earlier portions are a good counter part to 'Charlie Wilson's War'- many of the weapons systems appropriated from various international vendors are name-checked here: AK-47s wrapped in Chinese newspapers, Swiss anti-aircraft guns, Egyptian rockets, and others. There is no acknowledgment of the U.S. involvement there, the only visible U.S. interaction in the war to this books author was support for the training of Afghani journalists who would document Soviet atrocities. The later commentary on the Taliban and U.S./NATO eras is not nearly as interesting since the author doesn't experience any of it in person. ...more
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