Insight on the News, October 22nd, 2001
A journalist tries to make sense of the amalgam of mujahideen warriors, Islamic zealots, mercenary drug dealers and opportunistic ex-communists that comprise Afghanistan. The presumed role of the Taliban in abetting Osama bin Laden, the prime suspect in the tragedies of Sept. 11, lends a fresh sense of revulsion and fascination to their tale. Pardon Michael Griffin, then, if he describes his account of their unlikely rise to power, Reaping the Whirlwind: The Taliban Movement in Afghanistan (Pluto Press, $27.50, 272 pp), as a "narrative thriller." That rise, after all, has been marked by grisl...
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