We are videoing tonight and videoing ourselves and for our Youtube Channel and cspan booktv is here and leslie at the end before you come to get your book signed please fold up your chairs that you are sitting in and leaned them against something that looks like it wont topple over. We are very pleased to have Robert Grenier here with us this evening to talk about his new book 88 days to kandahar. All up spent 27 years with the cia as station chief in islamabad during what turned out to be a very critical time before and immediately after the 9 11 attacks. He was very much involved in the u. S. Efforts to oust the taliban from afghanistan and bring hamid karzai to power in the books title refers to the period twain september 11 and december 2001 when karsay made his return to afghanistan from pakistan. Other books of horse have reported extensively on the war in afghanistan including some by other former cia officials but rob offers a fresh details about the role of both the cia and th
First of all thank you everybody for being here. I am sure you hear authors all the time. Writing is a lonely job and so there is really Nothing Better than sitting in front of people who read your work and are interested in it. It is rare that i write mostly for a pakistani audience. I am a columnist for the largest newspaper and the genesis of this book was in my interactions he would write to me every week sometimes in response to the columns. Its difficult in the United States to get people interested in a book on pakistan. I was talking earlier to my friend and he was saying you know if you have a title that says the more tired tired than anyone else that you can sell a book about pakistan but a book about the city im from karachi and seen through the eyes of women is a harder sell so its so encouraging to see everybody here. You know i envision this book as a way to introduce people to really what it feels like to be pakistani more than anything else. So the theme in this book is
A diplomat for the region as russia and china. I strategic opportunities near the north pole plant after 50 years, nasa is getting ready to go back to the moon. Ah, well get in libya where at least 23 people have been killed and more than 100. Injured during intense baffles and tripoli. It follows a build up of rival forces over the past week after a dispute about who should govern. The violence is raising fears at the country could returned with civil war. Alec trainer has this report from tripoli. Smoke in the skies of the capitol holmes hospitals and businesses hit with heavy artillery. Across several districts in tripoli, clashes erupted early saturday between rival armed groups, the fighting occurred and densely Populated Areas and continued into the night. The cautious have been ongoing since last night. They stopped for a bit and then continues. Many of the victims were ordinary people, tired, scared, emotionally, and physically drained. These people were trapped in their homes
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Says that a kindergarten was hit in fridays asked raggedy theo appears to glide region. The government denies that it targeted civilians and on a charm offensive. The french president is wrapping up a visit to algeria named mending tense relations and sport. Liverpool are heading towards their 1st when abs eason with a massive victory, while in saturdays early pamela gain majesty, united, made it consecutive wins after being sent in ah, just after 1500 hours g m t, we stopped this usa in libya where at least 7 people have been killed in fighting between rival malicious and the capital tripoli. The violence began early on saturday in a heavily populated part of the city. In the past week, tripoli has seen a build up of wible forces, who had jostling for power. Its the latest threat to 2 years of relative peace after a ceasefire between allies of the countrys rival governments. Lets go live now to tripoli. Ill just here as manic. Trina is that for us. Tell us more about how this violence