88 Days to Kandahar: A CIA Diary (70 page)

United Nations (UN),
36
,
44
,
63
,
127
,
251
,
279

Bonn Conference convened by,
251
,
252
,
279
,
360
–61

High Commission for Refugees,
128

Iraq inspections by,
367

Security Council of,
353

United States:

bin Laden pursuit by,
43
–45,
53
,
56
–59,
66
,
73
,
74
,
81
–84,
88
–89,
96
,
114
,
118
–20,
128
,
131
,
135
,
261
,
264
,
291
–97,
339
,
362
,
379
,
384
–86

bin Laden’s “declaration of war” against,
44

civil rights movement in,
175

economic recession of 1970s in,
13

Indian relations with,
307
,
347
,
353

nuclear arms of,
177

Pakistani relations with,
37
–40,
44
–45,
48
–50,
68
–71,
73
–75,
100
,
111
,
158
,
269
–72,
301
–7,
350

Soviet relations with,
37
–38,
39

support for tyrannical regimes by,
381

treatment of prisoners by,
291

UK relations with,
97
–103

uranium
235
,
178

Urdu language,
68

Uruzgan Provincial Council,
200

Uzbekistan,
288

Karshi Khanabad (“K2”) Airbase in,
181
,
190
,
202

Uzbeks,
42
,
159

V

Vajpayee, Atal Bihari,
346

Vendrell, Francesc,
127

Vietnam War,
94
,
109
,
416

opposition to,
11

Virginia,
10
,
29
,
197
,
324

Virginia University Hospital,
15

W

Wajahat Chaudry, Colonel,
336
,
340

Wall Street Journal,
326

Wana,
386

Wardak,
210

War Jan,
225

War on Terror,
158
,
307
,
346
,
351
,
361
,
381
,
386
–87,
404

Washington, D.C.,
10
,
22
,
24
,
27
,
30
,
39
,
65
,
69
,
75
–76,
105
,
186
,
364

bureaucracy in,
25
,
91
–93

Capitol in,
76

Constitution Avenue in,
76

see also
White House

Washington Post,
195
,
399

weapons of mass destruction (WMD),
173
,
265
–67,
285
,
374

see also
biological weapons; chemical weapons; nuclear arms

Webster, Dan,
xvi
,
239

White House,
349

Oval Office of,
72
,
370
,
402

Rose Garden of,
255

Situation Room of,
7
,
64
–65,
345
,
366
,
369
,
401

West Wing of,
72
,
169
–70

Williston Academy,
11
–12

Wolfowitz, Paul,
xviii
,
64
,
106
,
108
,
367
,
368
,
371

relationship of RLG and,
24

Woodward, Bob,
109

Worcester, Mass.,
10
–11

World Heritage Sites,
127

World War I,
218

Wormsley, Kristen,
325

Y

Yeats, W. B.,
187

Yemen,
19

Z

Zadeh, Amin,
200

Zaeef, Abdul Salam,
xvii
,
52
,
54
,
113
,
122
,
253

arrest and imprisonment of,
361

Zahir Shah, Muhammad, King of Afghanistan,
138
,
159
,
372

“Zaman, General Imran,”
xvii
,
316
–19,
329
,
332

Zaman Ghamsharik, Haji,
187

Zaranj,
208

Zawahiri, Ayman al-,
274
,
338
,
362
,
384

Zia ul-Haq, General,
39

Zormat,
335
,
336

Zubayda,
see
Abu Zubayda

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Grenier, Robert (Robert L.)

88 days to Kandahar : a CIA diary / Robert L. Grenier

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1. Grenier, Robert (Robert L.) 2. Afghan War, 2001—Campaigns. 3. Afghan War, 2001—Personal narratives, American. 4. War on Terrorism, 2001–2009—Personal narratives, American. 5. Intelligence officers—United States—Biography. 6. United States. Central Intelligence Agency—Biography. 7. Taliban. 8. Afghanistan—Politics and government—21st century. 9. Pakistan—Relations—United States. 10. United States—Relations—Pakistan. I. Title. II. Title: Eighty eight days to Kandahar, a CIA diary.

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