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1 . Writenet Paper No. 14/2002 : & - Oliver Roy (CNRS), 2003 Writenet, -. Practical Management (UK). writenet@gn.apc.org,... Writenet.. ISSN

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17 ,. ( ) Fahim,,. - Taliban Al Qaeda, , -, -.,,,.,, -,,. 7. Afghan News, George, M. Profile : Ismal Khan, BBC News Online, Griffiths, J. C., Afghanistan : A History of Conflict, London : Carlton Books, 2001 Giustozzi, A., War, Politics and Society in Afghanistan, , Washington DC : Georgetown University Press, 2000 Rashid, A. Afghanistan: Warlord, Profiteer, Ideologue, Chief, Far Eastern Economic Review, Roy, O., Islamic Radicalism in Afghanistan and Pakistan, Writenet for UNHCR, January 2002, The Implications of the Taliban Power in Afghanistan, Writenet for UNHCR, April 1998, Islam and Resistance in Afghanistan, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986, L Afghanistan : Islam modernitée politique, Paris, May 1985 Rubin, B. R., The Fragmentation of Afghanistan, New Haven CT: Yale University Press,

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