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226 “Pakistani alley”:
For an excellent piece on the company’s deployment see Kristin Henderson, “A Change in Mission,”
Washington Post
, June 12, 2009;
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/AR2009
.

244 The videos are the latest example:
Rohde and
The New York Times
compiled a six-part video series that appeared on the newspaper’s Web site with a five-part series he wrote on his captivity.

To go to the video that includes some of the films we watched:
www./Projects.nytimes.com/held-by-the-taliban/#part-4
.

270 Vietnamese people are Muslims:
For more detail on the shooting in upstate New York see Robert D. McFadden, “Thirteen Shot Dead at Class on Citizenship,”
New York Times
, April 4, 2009;
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/nyregion/04hostage.html
.

270 an unprovoked war on Islam:
For additional information about Mullah Sangeen and his views see Bill Roggio, “An Interview with Mullah Sangeen,”
Long War Journal
, September 17, 2009;
www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/09/an_interview_with_mullah_sange.php
.

270 the Taliban’s first group of suicide bombers:
For more information about Mullah Dadullah, who was killed by American Special Forces soldiers in May 2007, see his final two interviews at
www.counterterrorismblog.org/2007/05/video_the_last_words_of_mullah_1.php
.

270 black flags:
Various postings appear online discussing the prophecy, which supporters say is a Hadith. One example can be found at
www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/771345/posts
.

277 somatic experiencing (SE):
www.traumahealing.com
.

277 Peter Levine:
Author of
Waking the Tiger
.

287 I lie awake in the darkness:
To see detailed graphics that show the layout of the house and how we escaped, see a video that
The New York Times
produced along with the written series on our captivity in October 2009. The video can be seen at
http://projects.nytimes.com/held-by-the-taliban/#part-5
.

295 to protect us under the tenet of Pashtunwali:
The specific element of Pashtunwali that Tahir requested asylum under is
nanawatai
.

305 He gives me a book:
A full description of the book is Muhammad Asghar Qureshi,
The Glorious Islam
, Lahore: Sajjad Asghar Qureshi (1997).

325 secret program . . . to help track and kill militants:
See Dexter Filkins and Mark Mazzetti, “Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants,”
New York Times
, March 14, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/world/asia/15contractors.html
.

Numerous books and studies are available for readers interested in learning more about Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Taliban, and kidnapping. The list below includes books we have read fully, read partially, or consulted. Numerous newspaper articles were consulted as well. Only the most central to our book are listed here.

Ali, Zulfiqar, “Understanding Tribal Areas,”
Dawn
, April 2, 2010,
www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/local/peshawar/understanding-tribal-areas-240
.

Associated Press, “Civilian Deaths Spike in Afghanistan, Pakistan,” April 28, 2010,
www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/28/world/main6439690.shtml
.

———, “Kidnappers Threaten to Kill U.N. Worker,” February 13, 2009,
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29183644/
.

Al Balagh Media Center, Interview with Sirajuddin Haqqani, April 10, 2010,
http://www.globalterroralert.com/images/documents/pdf/0410/f
lashpoint _haqqani041210.pdf.s.

CBS News Investigative Unit, Interview with Taliban Commander Sirajuddin Haqqani, August 20, 2008,
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-502683_162-4366029-502683.html
.

Coghlan, Tom, “Weak Government Allows Taleban to Prosper in Afghanistan,”
The Times
(of London), September 29, 2008,
www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4842499.ece
.

Coll, Steve, “The Case for Humility in Afghanistan,”
Foreign Policy
, October 16, 2009,
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/10/16/the_case_for_humility_in _afghanistan?page=full
.

———, “Letter from Afghanistan: War by Other Means,”
The New Yorker
, May 24, 2010.

———, “Think Tank,”
The New Yorker
,
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/stevecoll/
.

Cullather, Nick, “Damming Afghanistan: Modernization in a Buffer State,”
Journal of American History
89, September 2002, 2: 512-37,
http://www.indiana.edu/~histweb/faculty/Display
. php ?Faculty _ID =52.

Filkins, Dexter, “Afghan Civilian Deaths Rose 40 Percent in 2008,”
The New York Times
, February 17, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/world/asia/18afghan
. html.

———, and Mark Mazzetti, “Contractors Tied to Effort to Track and Kill Militants,”
The New York Times
, March 14, 2010,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/world/asia/15contractors.html
.

Gall, Carlotta, and David Rohde, “Militants Escape Control of Pakistan, Officials Say,”
The New York Times
, January 15, 2008,
www.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/world/asia/15isi.html
.

———, and Mohammad Khan, “Pakistan’s Push in Border Areas Is Said to Falter,
The New York Times
, January 22, 2006,
www.nytimes.com/2006/01/22/international/asia/22pakistan.html
.

Gopal, Anand, Mansur Khan Mahsud, and Brian Fishman, “Inside the Haqqani Network,” The AfPak Channel, June 3, 2010,
afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/06/03/inside_the_haqqani_network_0.

Gregg, Tom, “Caught in the Crossfire: The Pashtun Tribes of Southeast Afghanistan” (policy brief), The Lowy Institute for International Policy, October 2009,
http://www.lowyinstitute.org/Publication.asp?pid=1157
.

Gul, Pazir, “Waziristan Accord Signed,”
Dawn
, September 6, 2006,
www.dawn.com/2006/09/06/top2.htm
.

Haider, Zeeshan, “Pakistani Taliban Force Girls Schools to Close,” Reuters, January 17, 2009,
www.reuters.com/article/idUSISL282445
.

Henderson, Kristin, “A Change in Mission,”
The Washington Post
, June 12, 2009,
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/12/AR2009061202123.html
.

Kirby, Alex, “Afghans’ Uranium Levels Spark Alert,” BBC News, May 22, 2003,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3050317.stm
.

McFadden, Robert D., “Thirteen Shot Dead at Class on Citizenship,”
The New York Times
, April 4, 2009,
www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/nyregion/04hostage.html
.

Mazzetti, Mark, and David Rohde, “Amid U.S. Policy Disputes, Qaeda Grows in Pakistan,
The New York Times
, June 30, 2008,
www.nytimes.com/2008/06/30/washington/30tribal.html
.

———, and Eric Schmitt, “Afghan Strikes by Taliban Get Pakistan Help, U.S. Aides Say,”
The New York Times
, March 25, 2009,
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/world/asia/26tribal.html
.

Moore, Jonathan, “Morality and Foreign Policy,” speech given in Hanover, NH, The Dickey Center, 2007.

Rashid, Ahmed, “The Afghanistan Impasse,”
The New York Review of Books
, October 8, 2009.

Reuters, “Taliban Say S. Korea Paid over $20 Million in Ransom,” September 1, 2007,
http://in.reuters.com/article/idlNIndia-29278920070901
.

Roggio, Bill, “An Interview with Mullah Sangeen,”
The Long War Journal
, September 17, 2009,
www.longwarjournal.org/threat-matrix/archives/2009/09/an_interview_with_mullah_sange.php
.

Rohde, David, “An Afghan Symbol for Change, Then Failure,”
The New York Times
, September 5, 2006,
www.nytimes.com/2006/09/05/world/asia/05afghan.html
.

———, “Held by the Taliban,”
The New York Times
, October 17-21, 2009,
www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/world/asia/18hostage.html
.

———, “Army Enlists Anthropology in War Zones,”
The New York Times
. October 5, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/world/asia/05afghan.html
.

———, “GIs in Afghanistan on Hunt, but Now for Hearts and Minds,”
The New York Times
. March 30, 2004,
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/30/world/gi-s-in-afghanistan-on-hunt-but-now-for-hearts-and-minds
. html.

———, “The Other Conflict Continues to Take a G.I. Toll,”
The New York Times
, November 24, 2003,
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/24/world/the-other-conflict-continues-to-take-a-gi-toll
. html.

———, “Pakistan’s Terrorist Factory: Fact or Figment,”
The Christian Science Monitor
, April 14, 1995.

———, “Left Alone, Refugees Decry U.S. Indifference,”
The Christian Science Monitor
, April 19, 1995.

———, and C. J. Chivers, “Qaeda’s Grocery Lists and Manuals of Killing,”
The New York Times
, March 17, 2002,
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/17/world/a-nation-challenged-qaeda-s-grocery-lists-and-manuals-of-killing
. html.

———, David E. Sanger, “How a Good War Went Bad in Afghanistan,”
The New York Times,
August 12, 2007,
www.nytimes.com/2007/08/12/world/asia/12afghan.html
.

———, Carlotta Gall, Eric Schmitt, and David E. Sanger, “U.S. Officials See Waste in Billions Sent to Pakistan,”
The New York Times
, December 24, 2007,
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/24/world/asia/24military.html
.

Ruttig, Thomas, “The Haqqani Network as an Autonomous Entity,” in
Decoding the New Taliban: Insights from the Afghan Field
(New York: Columbia University Press, 2010), 57-88.

Shah, Pir Zubair, “U.S. Airstrike Kills 30 in Pakistan,”
The New York Times
, February 14, 2009,
www.nytimes.com/2009/02/15/world/asia/15pstan.html?_r=1
.

Tufail, Mazhar, “TTP Infighting Led to Beheading of Polish Engineer,”
The News International,
February 12, 2009,
www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=162048
.

Yusufzai, Sami, “For the Taliban, a Crime That Pays,”
Newsweek
, September 6, 2008,
http://www.newsweek.com/2008/09/05/for-the-taliban-a-crime-that-pays.html
.

Adair, Liz, et al.
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Alvi, Sohail Masood.
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Coll, Steve.
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———.
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