TY - BOOK AU - Rashid,Ahmed TI - Taliban: : militant Islam, oil and fundamentalism in Central Asia SN - 9780300089028 U1 - 958.104 PY - 2000///] CY - New Haven PB - Yale University Press KW - Afghanistan KW - Politics and government KW - 1973-1989 N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Kandahar 1994 : the origins of the Taliban; Herat 1995 : God's invincible soldiers; Kabul 1996 : commander of the faithful; Mazar-e-Sharif 1997 : massacre in the north; Bamiyan 1998-99 : the never-ending war; Challenging Islam : the new-style fundamentalism of the Taliban; Secret society : the Taliban's political and military organization; A vanished gender : women, children and Taliban culture; High on heroin : drugs and the Taliban economy; Global jihad : the Arab-Afghans and Osama Bin Laden; Dictators and oil barons : the Taliban and Central Asia, Russia, Turkey and Israel; Romancing the Taliban 1 : the battle for pipelines 1994-96; Romancing the Taliban 2 : the battle for pipelines 1997-99 : the USA and the Taliban; Master or victim : Pakistan's Afghan war; Shia and Sunni : Iran and Saudi Arabia; Conclusion : the future of Afghanistan ER -