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...tourist guide that's not just for tourists. Sure, the Essential Field Guide to Afghanistan (Crosslines Publications; 544 pages) can point you to the best pizza in Kabul. It also describes the blue glassware sold in the bazaars of Herat and tells you where to find a bed in Kandahar or nonstop Hindi movies in Mazar-e-Sharif. But the bulk of Edward Girardet and Jonathan Walter's guide relates to more life-and-death matters, and is an essential traveling companion for humanitarian-aid workers, diplomats, peacekeeping troops, journalists and others bound for Afghanistan. Although populated by plenty...
...medal for perfect timing goes to Chris Mackey, whose The Interrogators (Little, Brown; 484 pages), written with journalist Greg Miller, recounts his experiences in Army intelligence, grilling Arab prisoners in Kandahar. Watching him agonize over the ethics of his techniques provides rare insight into a process that, in the wake of Abu Ghraib, we urgently need to understand. This Man's Army (Gotham; 288 pages), by Andrew Exum, is a candid description of life in an ultra-hard-core Army Ranger unit in Afghanistan's Shah-e-Kot Valley, as well as a surprisingly thoughtful meditation on the philosophy...
...Laden, it turns out, was more of a micromanager than he has often been portrayed as. The commission says bin Laden personally gave Mohammed the go-ahead to begin laying the groundwork for the attack at a meeting in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in early 1999. Over the following 12 to 18 months, bin Laden chose or accepted oaths from all 19 of the eventual hijackers and tapped Mohammed Atta to be the mission's leader. Throughout the planning stage, bin Laden was the one who scaled back the more ambitious proposals. The key sources of the new information are Mohammed...
...hold him--Shahzada seized control of Taliban operations in southern Afghanistan. He recruited fighters by telling harrowing tales of his supposed ill-treatment in the cages of Guantanamo. He proved to be an effective insurgent. A Taliban source told TIME that it was Shahzada who masterminded a jailbreak in Kandahar in October, when 41 Talibs tunneled to freedom as bribed guards turned a blind eye. Several weeks ago, he and his gang nearly took the town of Spin Boldak, a smuggler's haven in the southeast, according to a security source in Kabul. His fighters, that source says, overran Afghan...
Shahzada was finally killed in action three weeks ago. Afghan militia in Kandahar learned from informants where he and two of his comrades were hiding and passed the news to U.S. special forces, who prepared an ambush, according to Razzaq Sherzai, a militia commander whose troops took part in the mission. A memorial service for Shahzada in Quetta, Pakistan, last week drew many Taliban leaders wanted by the U.S., Sherzai says...