Night Letters: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar And The Afghan Islamists Who Changed The World

"Islamic militancy has many fathers, and Chris Sands, with Fazelminallah Qazizai, tell a cinematic story of one of them: Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. The restless black-turbaned fanatic smashed Kabul into rubble and killed untold numbers of Afghans in his failed quest to rule Afghanistan. And the rest of the world must also bear the burden of his other legacy: his adoption of foreign fighters who flocked to Afghanistan, including Osama bin Laden – and the ideological framework for jihad that he helped pollinate within extremists across the world, which finds justification for the deaths – even murder – of all those who do not follow their fiery creed."