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For the north, wrote rudyard kipling in 1888 of british indias northwest frontier, since 1947 part of pakistan, guns always quietly but always guns. Cooley, digest of middle east studies on deepdyve, the largest online rental service for scholarly research with thousands of academic publications available at your fingertips. This new edition of a book first published in 1999 provides a first rate insight into the us relationship with militant islam during and since the cold war and provides much ammunition for those holding to the line that. Cooley knows his stuff and the book has a been there, interviewed him feel to it. Afghanistan, america and international terrorism lrb, 2 march, roger hardy states. Cooley papers at the hoover institution archives began as a collection of miscellaneous documents created and acquired by cooley while reporting as a journalist from algeria during that countrys war for independence in the early 1960s.
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