Table of Contents
Preface and Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Part I The Road To Afghanistan
1 From Whence I Came 9
2 On the Road to Afghanistan 25
3 The Road to Sholgara near Mazar Sharif 41
Part II Massoud And Me
4 In Search of Massoud 61
5 Into Battle with Massoud 69
6 My First Battle with Massoud 75
7 Hekmatyar 83
8 Politicking in Peshawar and the Entry of Extremists 97
9 The Broken Truce 103
10 When Kabul Fell, My World Fell 115
11 Power and Its Bitter Fruits 129
Part III The Arab Services Bureau
12 The Establishment of the Arab Services Bureau 141
13 The Early Arabs 155
14 The Inner Circle 163
15 Inner of the Inner Circle 171
16 Assassination 187
Part IV Into The Wilderness And Return To The Mountains
17 Into the Wilderness 215
18 Peshawar 231
19 To the Mountains 245
Epilogue 261
Notes 267
Bibliography 301
Index 313