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The Wrong Enemy

  • Writer: Michael Connolly
    Michael Connolly
  • Sep 18
  • 1 min read

Updated: Oct 21

The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001–2014 by Carlotta Gall, Mariner Books Reprint, Paperback (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) 2015. 


Inter-Service Intelligence

The real enemy is Pakistan, whose I.S.I. (Directorate for Inter-Service Intelligence) is behind the Taliban proxy force in Afghanistan.


Baluchistan

The author visited Quetta, the capital of the Baluchistan province of Pakistan, which is in the West,  near the border with Iran. The Baluchis don't have a country of their own. Instead, they are split between Pakistan and Iran. The Baluchi's in Pakistan want greater autonomy. The ISI persecutes journalists who report on its activities in Baluchistan, including the author.


Osama bin Laden

The I. S. I. is guilty of another sin.  It gave shelter to Osama bin Laden.  It is not clear how widely this fact was known to the rest of the government. 

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