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January 3, 2024

What the Taliban Told Me [Audiobook]

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Free Download What the Taliban Told Me (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0BRDGDPNQ | 2023 | 7 hours and 18 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 214 MB
Author: Ian Fritz
Narrator: Ian Fritz
A powerful, timely memoir of a young Air Force linguist coming-of-age in a war that is lost. When Ian Fritz joined the Air Force at eighteen, he did so out of necessity. He hadn’t been accepted into college thanks to an indifferent high school career. He’d too often slept through his classes as he worked long hours at a Chinese restaurant to help pay the bills for his trailer-dwelling family in Lake City, Florida. But the Air Force recognizes his potential and sends him to the elite Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California, to learn Dari and Pashto, the main languages of Afghanistan. By 2011, Fritz was an airborne cryptologic linguist and one of only a tiny number of people in the world trained to do this job on low-flying gunships. He monitors communications on the ground and determines in real time which Afghans are Taliban and which are innocent civilians.

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July 1, 2023

The Taliban Shuffle Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan

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Free Download The Taliban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan by Kim Barker, Kirsten Potter, Random House Audio
English | 2011 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B004T7CXKA | MP3@64 Kbps | Duration: 9 h 54 m | 273 Mb
Now a Major Motion Picture titled Whiskey Tango Foxtrot starring Tina Fey, Margot Robbie, Martin Freeman, Alfred Molina, and Billy Bob Thornton.
From tea with warlords in the countryside to parties with drunken foreign correspondents in the "dry" city of Kabul, journalist Kim Barker captures the humor and heartbreak of life in post-9/11 Afghanistan and Pakistan in this profound and darkly comic memoir. As Barker grows from awkward newbie to seasoned reporter, she offers an insider’s account of the region’s "forgotten war" at a time when all eyes were turned to Iraq. Candid, self-deprecating, and laugh-out-loud funny, Barker shares both her affection for the absurdities of these two hapless countries and her fear for their future stability.

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