Perfect Evil Part Two

"Half a decade ago, Steve Shaulis gave me a copy of the excellent book written by his Pakistani friend Ahmed Rashid: Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia. Steve had been working in Afghanistan for several years before the book was published, and had long maintained that we would suffer for ignoring that place. In his book Rashid, a Pakistani journalist with extensive ties in Afghanistan, Central Asia, and the west, clearly spelled out, long before the 9/11 attacks, the structure of the Taliban and their close association with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. The closing paragraph of his book proved prophetic:"
Michael Yon