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Jeanne K. Giraldo and Harold A. Trinkunas, Terrorism Financing and State Responses: A Comparative Perspective (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2007), p. 107.

38. On Soviet information on Hekmatyar, see Dossiers of Alliance-7 Rebel Leaders. Released by the Cold War International History Project.

39. Author interview with Graham Fuller, August 19, 2008.

40. Quoted in Coll, Ghost Wars, p. 119.

41. See, for example, Olivier Roy, Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan, 2nd ed. (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1986), p. 128.

42. Coll, Ghost Wars, p. 17.

43. Yousaf and Adkin, Afghanistan—The Bear Trap, p. 1.

44. Grau, ed., The Bear Went Over the Mountain; Grau, Artillery and Counterinsurgency: The Soviet Experience in Afghanistan (Fort Leavenworth, KS: Foreign Military Studies Office, 1997).

45. Pierre Allan and Albert A. Stahel, “Tribal Guerrilla Warfare Against a Colonial Power,” Journal of Conflict Resolution, vol. 27, December 1983, pp. 590–617.

46. Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence, “The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: Five Years After,” May 1985. Released by the National Security Archive.

47. See, for example, Andropov’s comments that the situation in Afghanistan is “stabilizing now,” in CC CPSU Politburo Transcript, February 7, 1980. Released by the Cold War International History Project.

48. Anatoly Chernyaev’s Notes from the Politburo of the CC CPSU Session of October 17, 1985. Released by the National Security Archive.

49. Session of CC CPSU Politburo, November 13, 1986. Released by the Cold War International History Project.

50. Ibid.

51. Colonel Tsagolov’s Letter to USSR Minister of Defense Dmitry Yazov on the Situation in Afghanistan, August 13, 1987. Released by the National Security Archive.

52. Minutes of the Politburo of the CC CPSU Session of February 23–26, 1987. Released by the National Security Archive.

53. Tanner, Afghanistan, p. 266.

54. Christopher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, The World Was Going Our Way: The KGB and the Battle for the Third World (New York: Basic Books, 2005), p. 408.

55. Agreements on the Settlement of the Situation Relating to Afghanistan (Geneva Accords), April 14, 1988.

56. Rashid, Taliban, p. 13; Rubin, Search for Peace in Afghanistan, p. 7; Grau, ed., The Bear Went Over the Mountain, p. xix.

57. Central Intelligence Agency, Directorate of Intelligence, “The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan: Five Years After,” May 1985. Released by the National Security Archive.

58. Rashid, Taliban, p. 18; Rubin, Fragmentation of Afghanistan, p. 20; Henry S. Bradsher, Afghanistan and the Soviet Union (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1985), pp. 24–25.

59. George Crile, Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History (New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003), p. 262.

60. Gates, From the Shadows, pp. 251, 319–21, 348–49. Also see Crile, Charlie Wilson’s War.

61. Yousaf and Adkin, Afghanistan—The Bear Trap, pp. 78–112; Gates, From the Shadows, p. 349.

62. Gates, From the Shadows, pp. 349–50.

63. Yousaf and Adkin, Afghanistan—The Bear Trap, p. 184.

64. Anderson, “American Viceroy: Zalmay Khalilzad’s Mission,” p. 61.

65. Huntington, Clash of Civilizations, pp. 246–48; National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, The 9/11 Commission Report (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), pp. 63–67, 371–74; Rashid, Taliban, pp. 48, 54; SIPRI Yearbook 1991: World Armaments and Disarmament (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991), p. 199.

66. Session of CC CPSU Politburo, January 28, 1980; Gromyko-Andropov-Ustinov-Ponomarev Report to CC CPSU on the Situation in Afghanistan, January 27, 1980. Released by the Cold War International History Project.

67. Report by Soviet Defense Minister Ustinov to CPSU CC on “Foreign Interference” in Afghanistan, January 2, 1980. Also see Information from the CC CPSU to Erich Honecker, June 21, 1980; Report of Military Leaders to D. F. Ustinov, May 10, 1981. Released by the Cold War International History Project.

68. Intelligence Note Concerning Actions by the US in Aiding the Afghanistan Rebel Fighters, September 1, 1980; A Report by Soviet Military Intelligence, September 1, 1981. Released by the Cold War International History Project.

69. Excerpt from KGB USSR and General Staff Report of December 1982. Released by the National Security Archive.

70. Session of CC CPSU Politburo, November 13, 1986. Released by the Cold War International History Project.

Chapter Three

1. Robert M. Gates, From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider’s Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), p. 431.

2. Author interview with Ambassador Robert Oakley, February 1, 2008.

3. Defense Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Appraisal, “Afghanistan: Soviet Withdrawal Scenario,” May 9, 1988. Released by the National Security Archive.

4. Central Intelligence Agency, Special National Intelligence Estimate 11/37/88, “USSR: Withdrawal from Afghanistan,” March 1988, p. 1. Also see, for example, Central Intelligence Agency, Special National Intelligence Estimate 37–89, “Afghanistan: The War in Perspective,” November 1989. Released by the National Security Archive.

5. Zalmay Khalilzad, “Ending the Afghan War,” Washington Post, January 7, 1990, p. B4.

6. CPSU CC Politburo Decision of January 24, 1989, With Attached Report of January 23, 1989. Released by the Cold War International History Project.

7. Barnett R. Rubin, The Fragmentation of Afghanistan: State Formation and Collapse in the International System, 2nd ed. (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002), p. 179.

8. Rubin, Fragmentation of Afghanistan, p. 165.

9. Stephen Tanner, Afghanistan: A Military History from Alexander the Great to the Fall of the Taliban (Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2002), pp. 272–73.

10. Zalmay Khalilzad, Prospects for the Afghan Interim Government (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 1991), pp. v, vi.

11. “Profile: General Rashid Dostum,” BBC News, September 25, 2001.

12. On the 1988 Geneva Accords, which failed to establish peace in Afghanistan, see Barnett R. Rubin, The Search for Peace in Afghanistan: From Buffer State to Failed State (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1995).

13. U.S. Embassy (Islamabad), Cable, “Afghanistan: [Excised] Briefs Ambassador on his Activities. Pleads for Greater Activism by U.N.,” August 27, 1997. Released by the National Security Archive.

14. Quoted in Neamatollah Nojumi, “The Rise and Fall of the Taliban,” in Robert D. Crews and Amin Tarzi, eds., The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008), p. 99.

15. Human Rights Watch, Human Rights Watch World Report 1993 (New York: