My Life With The Taliban [HARDCOVER] [RARE BOOKS]

Reading Mullah Zaeef's book reminded me for the umpteenth time how valuable it is to read about a movement like the Taliban from its own perspective the real "intelligence" in the book lies not in its details but in texture, perspective, assumptions and narratives that it provides from inside the Taliban leadership -a very rare perspective."

Christina Lamb, Sunday Times

A fascinating account of his own remarkable life which gives real insight into why the Taliban was formed, what motivates it, and what it is now trying to achieve. It is what he has to say about hopes of ending the current war, however, that will be of most interest to the spooks and diplomats in Kabul, Washington and London Sunday Telegraph

Not, perhaps, since the Khmer Rouge, has a movement emerged on the world stage about which so much is opaque to outsiders as the Taliban. Much of that opacity is, of course, intentional Into this murk Mullah Abdul Salam Zaeef shines some much-needed light with his fascinating memoir as a Taliban insider. By virtue of his role as the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, Zaeef was privy to the Taliban's decision-making in the run up to 9/11 and thereafter. And his story has much to say about the nature of the gathering insurgency that NATO and the United States presently face. If President Obama wanted a

window into the thinking of the Taliban today he couldn't do better than this' Peter Bergen, author of Holy War, Inc. and The Osama bin Laden I Know