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Keeping Afghanistan in the spotlight through the stories of its people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Inside the Plot That Killed Ahmad Shah Massoud (opens the original)
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On 9 September 2001, two al-Qaeda operatives posing as journalists assassinated Ahmad Shah Massoud, just two days before the 9/11 attacks. But how did they manage to get so close to him? In this excerpt from my exclusive interview with veteran New Yorker journalist Jon Lee Anderson, he discusses his investigation into Massoud’s assassination, the route the killers took through Northern Alliance territory, and the local figures who helped them along the way. Anderson explains why he believes Abdu
The Inside Story of Hamid Karzai’s Rise to Power | Don Parnell (Part 3) (opens the original)
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More than two decades after helping overthrow the Taliban and witnessing the birth of Afghanistan’s new government, Don Parnell looks back at what became of the country — and the people — he left behind. In the final part of this exclusive three-part interview, the former CIA Chief of Ground Branch reflects on the aftermath of the 2001 campaign, his relationship with Hamid Karzai, and the extraordinary experiences that followed the fall of Kandahar. Parnell shares some of the more human — and at
The Inside Story of Hamid Karzai’s Rise to Power | Don Parnell (Part 2) (opens the original)
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As Hamid Karzai emerged as Afghanistan’s new interim leader, the Taliban’s first regime was collapsing. But behind the scenes, the final days of Taliban rule in their Pashtun heartland, were shaped as much by negotiations as by military force. In Part 2 of this 3 parts exclusive interview, former CIA Chief of Ground Branch Don Parnell recounts witnessing Hamid Karzai’s acceptance of the interim presidency, the secret negotiations that led to the surrender of Kandahar, and entering the city along
The Inside Story of Hamid Karzai’s Rise to Power | Don Parnell (Part 1) (opens the original)
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On 14 November 2001, a small CIA team and U.S. Special Forces secretly inserted Hamid Karzai into southern Afghanistan. Less than a month later, Karzai would become Afghanistan’s interim leader. In Part 1 of this exclusive interview, Don Parnell, former CIA Chief of Ground Branch , who was by Karzai’s side throughout the mission, tells the inside story of one of the most consequential operations of the war in Afghanistan. Parnell recounts how the CIA assembled the mission in the aftermath of 9/1
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