Title: A man and a motorcycle : how Hamid Karzai came to power /
Authors: Dam, Bette, 1979-
Year: 2014
Subjects: Karzai, Hamid,; Presidents Afghanistan Biography.
Abstract: With a secondhand motorcycle, the support of a few powerful tribesmen and a good friend in the CIA, the unknown Hamid Karzai willed himself to power as the new hope of afghanistan.
Contents: Back to 2001 : The Message -- 9/11 : New Opportunities -- A Diplomat Among Warlords -- This is Suicide : Serious Doubts in Karzai's Group -- America Takes Revenge -- Crossing Taliban Territory on a Motorcycle -- Doubles in Durji : The First Confrontation With the Taliban -- Support From the American A-Team -- The Fall of Tarin Kot -- The Unexpected Voice at the Bonn Conference -- Carnival in Kandahar : The Race to the Last Taliban Stronghold.