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Books and Documents

Eight years later, slew of fascinating books on 9/11

By Suhasini Haidar

September 15, 2009

9/11 still excites our imagination of jihadis and their joyless world. Journalists living and working out of Pakistan and Afghanistan paint a bleak, gloomy picture

September 11 is typically a day when the world looks to New York and Washington, where elaborate and moving ceremonies remember nearly 3,000 people who died there. It’s also a good time to remember what has followed since for the rest of the world, and, the signs in the jihadi build-up to 9/11 that the world missed then, but can’t afford to miss again.

With Pakistan and Afghanistan (and AfPak, the overlapping trouble spot in between), that becomes a daily game of second-guess, and anyone trying to follow events there will be grateful for a slew of books that have come out in the past few months, all by journalists — The Al Qaeda Connection by Imtiaz Gul is the perfect primer on just what is going on in FATA, Pakistan’s Tribal areas — essential if you want to follow the post-Mehsud possibilities for the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan. Interestingly, his case is that Al Qaeda is doing to Pakistan in Waziristan what Pakistan did to India in Kashmir — not to be missed, his description of the Kandahar hostage exchange, as well as a detailed chapter called the ‘ISI factor’.

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