Part 9: Into the Graveyard of Empires
1. Jill Smolowe, Paul Hofheinz, and Cristina Lamb, “Afghanistan Without a Look Back,” Time, February 20, 1989.
2. Bill Keller, “Last Soviet Soldiers Leave Afghanistan,” New York Times, February 16, 1989.
3. Bill Keller, “Last Soviet Soldiers Leave Afghanistan,” New York Times, February 16, 1989.
4. Jill Smolowe, Paul Hofheinz, and Cristina Lamb, “Afghanistan Without a Look Back,” Time, February 20, 1989.
5. Jill Smolowe, Paul Hofheinz, and Cristina Lamb, “Afghanistan Without a Look Back,” Time, February 20, 1989.
6. Pepe Escobar, “Backstage at the Theater of ‘Terror,’ ” Asia Times Online, February 27, 2009.
7. David Johnston,“Wilson the Warrior,” New York Times, May 25, 2003.
8. David Johnston, “Wilson the Warrior,” New York Times, May 25, 2003; Steve Coll, Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 (New York: Penguin Books, 2004), p. 185.
