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My Life with the Taliban by Abdul Salam Zaeef Edited by Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn

MY LIFE WITH THE TALIBAN

• Death at Home  
•  The Camps   
•  The Jihad   
•  Lessons from the ISI   
•  Bitter Pictures   
•  Withdrawal   
•  Taking Action   
•  The Beginning   
•  Administrative Rule   
•   Mines and Industries   
•   A Monumental Task    
•   Diplomatic Principles    
•   Growing Tensions    
•   The Osama Issue and its Aftermath    
•   A Hard Realisation    
•  Prisoner        
•  Guantánamo Bay    
•  Graveyard of the Living    
•  Getting Out    
•   No War to Win    
• Epilogue: Afghanistan Today    
• Notes    
• Bibliography    
• Chronology    
• Glossary    
• Suggestions for Further Reading    
• About the Author and Editors    
• Index

From the book

You could tell it was a big bomb from the numbers of corpse-laden pickup trucks that passed us on our way to the river.

There were so many bodies that in death they were shown disrespect, tossed into the back of cars and trucks for the journey back to town.

As we approached the scene we could see a gathering crowd of police cars and onlookers.

Policemen and local villagers stood among what remained:

 overturned thermos flasks of green tea; vendors’ plastic baskets with nuts, biscuits and matches;

a bright green, red and orange woven mat—all stained with bright red blood. Young police officers mill around, manifesting a faint attempt at standing guard, as if they could somehow bring him back;

three 4cars, the fronts gnarled as if chewed by some subterranean monster; and everywhere the shoes that people had taken off before stepping onto the mats.