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US Failure Breeds a Stronger al-Qaeda

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Sep 04, 2008
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This is an edited excerpt from Ahmed Rashid's recently published Descent into Chaos: How the war against Islamic extremism is being lost in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia (Penguin Books, 2008 available from Amazon, US$18.45). Used with permission.

Seven years on, the US-led war on terrorism has left in its wake a far more unstable world than exis…

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