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    A Rope and a Prayer

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      ———, and Eric Schmitt, “Afghan Strikes by Taliban Get Pakistan Help, U.S. Aides Say,” The New York Times, March 25, 2009, http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/world/asia/26tribal.html.

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      Rohde, David, “An Afghan Symbol for Change, Then Failure,” The New York Times, September 5, 2006, www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/world/asia/05afghan.html.

      ———, “Held by the Taliban,” The New York Times, October 17-21, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/asia/18hostage.html.

      ———, “Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones,” The New York Times. October 5, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html.

      ———, “GIs in Afghanistan on Hunt, but Now for Hearts and Minds,” The New York Times. March 30, 2004, http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/world/gi-s-in-afghanistan-on-hunt-but-now-for-hearts-and-minds. html.

      ———, “The Other Conflict Continues to Take a G.I. Toll,” The New York Times, November 24, 2003, http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/24/world/the-other-conflict-continues-to-take-a-gi-toll. html.

      ———, “Pakistan’s Terrorist Factory: Fact or Figment,” The Christian Science Monitor, April 14, 1995.

      ———, “Left Alone, Refugees Decry U.S. Indifference,” The Christian Science Monitor, April 19, 1995.

      ———, and C. J. Chivers, “Qaeda’s Grocery Lists and Manuals of Killing,” The New York Times, March 17, 2002, http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/world/a-nation-challenged-qaeda-s-grocery-lists-and-manuals-of-killing. html.

      ———, David E. Sanger, “How a Good War Went Bad in Afghanistan,” The New York Times, August 12, 2007, www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/world/asia/12afghan.html.

      ———, Carlotta Gall, Eric Schmitt, and David E. Sanger, “U.S. Officials See Waste in Billions Sent to Pakistan,” The New York Times, December 24, 2007, http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/world/asia/24military.html.

      Ruttig, Thomas, “The Haqqani Network as an Autonomous Entity,” in Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field (New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 57-88.

      Shah, Pir Zubair, “U.S. Airstrike Kills 30 in Pakistan,” The New York Times, February 14, 2009, www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/world/asia/15pstan.html?_r=1.

      Tufail, Mazhar, “TTP Infighting Led to Beheading of Polish Engineer,” The News International, February 12, 2009, www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=162048.

      Yusufzai, Sami, “For the Taliban, a Crime That Pays,” Newsweek, September 6, 2008, http://www.newsweek.com/2008/09/05/for-the-taliban-a-crime-that-pays.html.

      BOOKS

      Adair, Liz, et al. Lucy Shook’s Letters from Afghanistan. Ferndale, WA: GAL Editing & Publishing, 2002.

      Alvi, Sohail Masood. FATA: Beginning of a New Era. Lahore, Pakistan: Printhouse, 2006.

      Anderson, Terry. Den of Lions: Memoirs of Seven Years. New York: Crown, 1993.

      Bissell, William Nanda. Making India Work. New Delhi: Penguin Viking, 2009.

      Caroe, Olaf. The Pathans 550 B.C.-A.D. 1957. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1958.

      Carothers, Thomas. Aiding Democracy Abroad: The Learning Curve. Washington, D.C.: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, 1999.

      Chatterjee, Pratap. Iraq, Inc.: A Profitable Occupation. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2004.

      Chayes, Sarah. The Punishment of Virtue: Inside Afghanistan After the Taliban. New York: The Penguin Press, 2006.

      Gul, Imtiaz. The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistani’s Lawless Frontier. New York: Viking, 2010.

      Churchill, Winston S. The Story of the Malakand Field Force: An Episode of Frontier War. Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 1898, 2005.

      Coll, Steve. The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. New York: The Penguin Press, 2008.

      ———. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. New York: The Penguin Press, 2004.

      Crile, George. Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of How the Wildest Man in Congress and a Rogue CIA Agent Changed the History of Our Times. New York: Grove Press, 2003.

      Dupree, Louis. Afghanistan. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1973.

      Dupree, Nancy. An Historical Guide to Afghanistan. Kabul, Afghanistan: Afghan Tourist Organization, 1977.

      Fergusson, James. A Million Bullets: The Real Story of the British Army in Afghanistan. London: Bantam Press, 2008.

      Gandhi, Rajmohan. Ghaffar Khan: Nonviolent Badhshah of the Pakhtuns. New Delhi: Penguin Viking, 2004.

      Ghani, Ashraf, and Clare Lockhart. Fixing Failed States: A Framework for Rebuilding a Fractured World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

      Giustozzi, Antonio, ed. Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field. New York: Columbia University Press, 2009.

      Gul, Imtiaz. The Most Dangerous Place: Pakistani’s Lawless Frontier. New York: Viking, 2010.

      Jones, Owen Bennett. Pakistan: Eye of the Storm. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.

      Jones, Seth G. In the Graveyard of Empires: America’s War in Afghanistan. New York: Norton, 2009.

      Keenan, Brian. An Evil Cradling. London: Hutchinson, 1992.

      Kiviat, Katherine, and Scott Heidler. Women of Courage: Intimate Stories from Afghanistan. Layton, UT: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2007.

      Leeson, Frank. Frontier Legion: With the Khassadars of North Waziristan. West Sussex, England: The Leeson Archive, 2003.

      Loyn, David. Butcher & Bolt. London: Hutchinson, 2008.

      Macintyre, Ben. The Man Who Would Be King: The First American in Afghanistan. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2004, xiii-xiv, 209-29.

      Mohsin, Hamid. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. New York: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2007.

      Neumann, Ronald E. The Other War: Winning and Losing in Afghanistan. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2009.

      Olivetti, Vincenzo. Terror’s Source: The Ideology of Wahhabi-Salafism and Its Consequences . Birmingham, AL: Amadeus Books, 2001.

      Pearl, Mariane, with Sarah Crichton. A Mighty Heart: The Brave Life and Death of My Husband, Danny Pearl. New York: Scribner, 2003.

      Peters, Gretchen. Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.

      Pickthall, Marmaduke, trans. The Holy Quran with English and Urdu Translation, New Delhi: Kitab Bhavan, 2001.

      Poullada, Leon B., and Leila D. J. Poullada. The Kingdom of Afghanistan and the United States: 1828-1973. Omaha and Lincoln, NB: The Center for Afghanistan Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha and Dageforde Publishing, 1995.

      Punjab Government, Report on Waziristan and Its Tribes, Lahore, Pakistan: Sang-e-Meel Publications, 1901, 2005.

      Rashid, Ahmed. Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.

      ———. Descent into Chaos: The Uni
    ted States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia. New York: Viking, 2008.

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      Toynbee, Arnold. Between Oxus and Jumma. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1961.

      Van Dyk, Jere. Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban. New York: Times Books, 2010.

      ———. In Afghanistan: An American Odyssey. New York: Coward-McCann, 1983.

      Vogelsang, Willem. The Afghans. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2002.

      Woodward, Bob. Bush at War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002.

      ———. Plan of Attack. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.

      ———. State of Denial. Bush at War, Part III. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006.

      ———. The War Within, a Secret White House History 2006-2008. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008.

      Zaeef, Abdul Zalam, with Alex Strick van Linschoten and Felix Kuehn, eds. My Life with the Taliban. London: Hurst & Company, 2010.

      DOCUMENTS AND REPORTS

      Aziz, Khalid. Causes of Rebellion in Waziristan. Peshawar, Pakistan: Regional Institute of Policy Research & Training, 2005.

      Baron, Lloyd. Sector Analysis: Helmand-Arghandab Valley Region, Kabul, Afghanistan: Agency for International Development, 1973.

      Caudill, Mildred. Helmand-Arghandab Valley: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Lashkar Gah, Afghanistan: Agency for International Development, 1969.

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      International Crisis Group. A Force in Fragments: Reconstituting the Afghan National Army. Brussels, Belgium, 2010.

      Jones, Seth G. Counterinsurgency in Afghanistan. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2008.

      ———, et al. Establishing Law and Order After Conflict. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2005.

      Jordan, Leonard B. Report on Development of Helmand Valley, Afghanistan. Washington, D.C.: Tudor Engineering, 1956.

      Neumann, Ronald. Reconstruction Strategy in Post-Bonn Afghanistan—Setting Priorities to Galvanize International Donors, the Short Cable. Washington, D.C.: U.S. State Department, October 18, 2005.

      Singer, P.W. Corporate Warriors: The Rise of the Privatized Military Industry. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003.

      Williams, Maurice. Retrospective Review of U.S. Assistance to Afghanistan, 1950-1979. Washington, D.C.: Bethesda, MD: Devres, Inc., 1988.

      Wincek, Cynthia. The Helmand Valley Project in Afghanistan. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Agency for International Development, 1973.

      RESOURCES FOR KIDNAP VICTIMS AND THEIR FAMILIES

      Alvarez, James, “The Psychological Impact of Kidnap,” in Elizabeth K. Carll, ed., Trauma Psychology: Issues in Violence, Disaster, Health and Illness, Volume 1: Violence and Disaster, Westport, CT: Praeger Perspectives, 2007.

      Anderson, Terry. Den of Lions: Memoirs of Seven Years. New York: Crown, 1993.

      Committee to Protect Journalists, 330 Seventh Avenue, 11th floor, New York, NY 10001, 212-465-1004, info@cpj. com, http://www.cpj.org/.

      Johnston, Alan, “My Kidnap Ordeal,” From Our Own Correspondent, BBC News, October 25, 2007, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7048652.stm.

      Keenan, Brian. An Evil Cradling. London: Hutchinson, 1992.

      Van Dyk, Jere. Captive: My Time as a Prisoner of the Taliban. New York: Times Books, 2010.

      INDEX

      Abdur Rahman, emir of Afghanistan

      Abramson, Jill

      Abu Ghraib prison scandal

      Abu Qatada

      Abu Tayyeb

      disappearances of

      Najibullah Naeem as real name of

      negotiations of

      phone calls made by

      as Rohde’s captor

      Rohde’s interview with

      Afghanistan:

      agriculture in

      Al Qaeda in

      British presence in

      corruption in

      economy of

      education in

      ethnic rivalries in

      foreign conquest of

      foreign contractors in

      government of

      health clinics in

      illiteracy in

      independence of

      infrastructure of

      Iraq compared with

      irrigation canals in

      Islamic fundamentalism in

      kidnappings in

      law and order in

      map of

      monarchy of

      mujahideen in

      NATO forces in

      opium production in

      Pakistan border of

      Pashtun population of

      peacekeeping forces in

      police force of

      poverty of

      reconstruction of

      reform movement in

      road construction in

      Rohde’s reports on

      security situation in

      Soviet invasion of

      Tajik population of

      Taliban resurgence in

      Taliban rule in

      tribal codes and traditions of

      tribal councils (jirgas) of

      U.S. aid to

      U.S. embassy in

      U.S. forces in

      U.S. invasion of

      U.S. military presence in

      U.S. relations with

      U.S. withdrawal from

      warlords in

      women in

      Afghan National Army

      African embassy bombings (1998)

      Agha, Sayed

      Ahmad Shah Durrani, king of Afghanistan

      Akbar (guard)

      Akhundzada, Sher Muhammad

      Akhundzada (Taliban intelligence official)

      Al Jazeera

      Al Qaeda

      Alvarez, James R.

      Amanullah Khan, king of Afghanistan

      American International Security Corp. (AISC)

      Anderson, Terry

      Andiwal, Muhammad Hussein

      Arabs

      Armitage, Richard

      Aurakzai, Ali Muhammad Jan

      Bagram, Afghanistan

      Bagram Air Base

      BBC

      Beyond Khyber Pass (Thomas)

      Bhutto, Benazir

      bin Laden, Osama

      Bosnia

      Bush, George H. W.

      Bush, George W.

      Caravans (Michener)

      Carroll, Jill

      Cathy (FBI agent)

      Cena, John

      Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

      Chamberlain, Neville

      Champagne, David

      Chechens

      Chemonics International

      Chinese engineers, kidnappings of (2010)

      Chira, Susan

      Chivers, Chris

      Christianity

      Christian Science Monitor

      “Chunky” (guard)

      Churchill, Winston S.

      Clarridge, Dewey

      Clayton Consultants

      Clinton, Bill

      Clinton, Hillary

      Committee to Protect Journalists

      Cosmopolitan

      Curzon, George N.

      Dadullah, Mullah

      Darul Uloom Haqqania

      Day, Sherry

      Dayton peace talks (1995)

      Defense Department, U.S.

      Deobandi Islam

      Descent into Chaos (Rashid)

      Dilawar (Afghan taxi driver)

      Dobbins, James

      Dosali, Pakistan

      drone strikes

      Dubai

      Dyer, Edwin

      DynCorp

      Eikenberry, Ching

      Eikenberry, Karl

      England, Lynndie

      Faqir of Ipi

      Farrell, Stephen

      Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

      Federally Administered Triba
    l Areas (FATA)

      Feith, Douglas J.

      Filkins, Dexter

      Finn, Robert

      Francis, Saint

      Frantz, Douglas

      Frontier Corps

      Fung, Melissa

      Furlong, Michael D.

      Gandhi, Mohandas K.

      Gates, Robert

      Gaza

      Ghaffar Khan, Khan Abdul

      Glorious Islam, The

      Google or Internet search

      Grader, Charles

      Graner, Charles

      Great Britain

      Guantánamo Bay detention center

      Haass, Richard N.

      Hamas

      Hamid (suicide bomber)

      Haqqani, Badruddin

      Atiqullah as alias for

      negotiations with

      “picnic” arranged by

      as Rohde’s captor

      videos recorded by

      Haqqani, Jalaluddin

      Haqqani, Sirajuddin

      Haqqani network

      Harlan, Josiah

      Hekmatyar, Gulbuddin

      Helmand Province, Afghanistan

      Hizbi-i-Islami

      Holbrooke, Richard

      Huffington, Arianna

      Human Rights Watch

      India

      Indian embassy attack (2008)

      International Committee of the Red Cross

      Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)

      Iraq

      Islamabad, Pakistan

      Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan

      Islamic fundamentalism

      Jaish-e-Muhammad

      Jalali, Ali Ahmed

      Jan, Abdul Rahman

      jihad

      Jim (FBI agent)

      John (FBI agent)

      John (Rohde family representative)

      Johnston, Alan

      Joint Terrorism Task Force

      Kabul

      Kandahar, Afghanistan

      Karen (Mulvihill’s sister)

      Karzai, Hamid

      Kashmir

      Kay, Christine (Rohde’s editor)

      Keith (embassy official)

      Keller, Bill

      Kerry, John

      Khalilzad, Zalmay

      Khost Province, Afghanistan

      Kipling, Rudyard

      Koran

     


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