The Rise of al Qaeda with Steve Coll (Conversations with History)

Religion and Spirituality (Video)

English - May 02, 2005 21:00 - 57 minutes - 134 MB Video - ★★★ - 4 ratings
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Conversations Host Harry Kreisler welcomes Steve Coll, Pulitzer prize winning author of Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and Bin Laden for a discussion of how the superpower conflict in the last stages of the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy before and after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the political dynamics of South Asia created the setting in which Islamic terrorism took root and flourished. Series: "Conversations with History" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 9513]