Without Borders by Jere Van Dyk
Tells the story of the rise of an ideology and movement born in the Mongol conquest of Baghdad in 1258, which resurfaced in Arabia and India in the 18th Century, lived on in the anti-Christian, anti-British, anti-European, and anti-Russian colonial movements of the 19th and 20th centuries, and in modern times evolved into the Haqqani Mujahideen.
Jere Van Dyk attended the University of Oregon, served in the U.S.Army in Germany, and later went to the Sorbonne and the Institut d'Études Politiques. In 1973, he and his younger brother drove a Volkswagen from Europe to Afghanistan. He returned there in 1981 for the New York Times to cover the Afghan-Soviet war, for which he was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. In 1984, he became Executive Director of Friends of Afghanistan. After travels in Asia and South America, he was an analyst for CBS on Afghanistan, Pakistan, and al-Qaida. In 2008, he was kidnapped by the Taliban and returned to Afghanistan six years later to find out who had kidnapped him and why. He is a consultant to 60 Minutes and is working on a book about the death of Pat Tillman, themformer professional football star and U.S. Army Ranger, who was killed in Haqqani territory in 2004.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781680538656 |
| ISBN 10 | 1680538659 |
| Title | Without Borders |
| Author | Jere Van Dyk |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Academica Press |
| Year published | 2022-10-30 |
| Number of pages | 404 |
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