Musa Khan Jalalzai 
Afghanistan 
Militias Governance and their Disputed Leadership (Taliban, ISIS, US Proxy Militais, Extrajudicial Killings, War Crimes and Enforced Disappearances)

Writers and analysts have uncovered the illegal role of private militias’ commanders in Afghanistan. These commanders and self-styled leaders were driven overwhelmingly by their personal power, and they were not only considered illegitimate on the domestic political scene, and viewed as irrelevant. The present Afghan government is a mix of all types of its efforts, including war criminals, and militia commanders who smuggle narcotics, drugs, arm, and kill women and children. War criminals and militias commanders have developed complex survival and legitimation strategies beyond their territorial realms. After years of its establishment, the Afghan local police (ALP) was undermined due to its failure to stabilize remote regions of the country. The US proxy militias are the source of consternation. The US Army established an incompetent intelligence agency (NDS) to serve its interest. The NDS established regional militias to support the CIA and Pentagon war mission against the people of the country. The NDS established Unit-01 for Central Region, Unit-02 for Eastern Region, Unit-03 for Southern Region, and Unit-04, as a Khost Protection Force (KPF), and committed war crimes in these regions with the support of the US Army and CIA. This book has documented the role of all internal and external actors, warlords and stakeholders.

Spis treści

Introduction


Chapter 1 From Rebel to Quasi-State: Governance, Diplomacy and Legitimacy in the Midst of Afghanistan’s Wars (1979–2001) by Romain Malejacq


Chapter 2 Rebel Governance, Rebel Legitimacy, and External Intervention: Assessing three Phases of Taliban Rule in Afghanistan by Niels Terpstra


Chapter 3 Afghanistan’s Newest Local Defence Force: Were “All the Mistakes of the ALP” Turned into ANA-TF Safeguards? by Kate Clark


Chapter 4 Opportunity Structures, Rebel Governance, and Disputed Leadership: The Taliban’s Upsurge in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan, 2011–2015 by Niels Terpstra


Chapter 5 Afghanistan’s Taliban: Legitimate Jihadists or Coercive Extremists? by Florian Weigand


Chapter 6 Armed Governance: the Case of the CIA-Supported Afghan Militias by Antonio De Lauri and Astri Suhrke


Chapter 7 The Unintended Consequences of US Support on Militia Governance in Kunduz Province of Afghanistan by Toon Dirkx


Notes to Chapter


Index

O autorze

Musa Khan Jalalzai is a journalist and research scholar. He has written extensively on Afghanistan, terrorism, nuclear and biological terrorism, human trafficking, drug trafficking, and intelligence research and analysis. He was an Executive Editor of the Daily Outlook Afghanistan from 2005-2011, and a permanent contributor in Pakistan’s daily The Post, Daily Times, and The Nation, Weekly the Nation, (London). However, in 2004, US Library of Congress in its report for South Asia mentioned him as the biggest and prolific writer. He received Masters in English literature, Diploma in Geospatial Intelligence, University of Maryland, Washington DC, certificate in Surveillance Law from the University of Stanford, USA, and diploma in Counter terrorism from Pennsylvania State University, California, the United States.