Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Foreword to the Third Edition ix
4. Preface to the Second Edition xv
5. Preface and Acknowledgements to the First Edition xix
6. Maps xxv
7. Introduction: Afghanistan’s Holy Warriors 1
8. Part 1: History of the Taliban Movement
9. Chapter 1 Kandahar 1994: The Origins of the Taliban 17
10. Chapter 2 Herat 1995: God’s Invincible Soldiers 31
11. Chapter 3 Kabul 1996: Commander of the Faithful 41
12. Chapter 4 Mazar-e-Sharif 1997: Massacre in the North 55
13. Chapter 5 Bamiyan 1998-99: The Never-Ending War 67
14. Part 2: Islam and the Taliban
15. Chapter 6 Challenging Islam: The New-Style Fundamentalism of the Taliban 82
16. Chapter 7 Secret Society: The Taliban’s Political and Military Organization 95
17. Chapter 8 A Vanished Gender: Women, Children and Taliban Culture 105
18. Chapter 9 High on Heroin: Drugs and the Taliban Economy 117
19. Chapter 10 Global Jihad: The Arab-Afghans and Osama Bin Laden 128
20. Part 3: The New Great Game
21. Chapter 11 Dictators and Oil Barons: The Taliban and Central Asia, Russia, Turkey and Israel 143
22. Chapter 12 Romancing the Taliban 1: The Battle for Pipelines 1994–96 157
23. Chapter 13 Romancing the Taliban 2: The Battle for Pipelines 1997–99 – The USA and the Taliban 170
24. Chapter 14 Master or Victim: Pakistan’s Afghan War 183
25. Chapter 15 Shia Versus Sunni: Iran and Saudi Arabia 196
26. Chapter 16 Conclusion: The Future of Afganistan 207
27. Chapter 17 The Taliban Resurgent 2000–2009 217
28. Appendices 247
29. Bibliography 287
30. Notes 291
31. Index 309