Thursday, December 3, 2009

War in Afghanistan

This current topic requires sources that were published 2001 and later unless you are getting background information on Afghanistan. Look for current articles from newspapers, magazines, and government Web sites for this ongoing conflict.

Books at the Park Forest Public Library:

Afghanistan (958.1045 AFG)
American Soldier by Tommy Franks (355.0092 FRA)
Good Muslim, Bad Muslim: America, the Cold War, and the Roots of Terror by Mahmood Mamdani (320.557 MAM)
Horse Soldiers: The Extraordinary Story of a Band of U.S. Soldiers Who Rode to Victory in Afghanistan by Doug Stanton (958.1047 STA)
The Hunt for bin Laden: Task Force Digger by Robin Moore (958.1047 MOO)
In Afghanistan: Two Hundred Years of British, Russian and American Occupation by David Loyn (958.103 LOY)
In the Name of Osama bin Laden: Global Terrorism & the bin Laden Brotherhood by Roland Jacquard (958.1046 BIN)
Invisible History: Afghanistan's Untold Story by Paul Fitzgerald (958.1 FIT)
Seeds of Terror: How Heroin Is Bankrolling the Taliban and Al Qaeda by Gretchen Peters (958.1047 PET)
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan (958.1046 TAL)

Databases:

Best databases for this search: EBSCOhost MasterFILE, Newspaper Source Plus; Student Research Center; Points of View; Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center; and for information on Afghanistan try Lands and Peoples

Try the keywords: Afghan war 2001 or Afghanistan War

Limit Suggestions: Full text, peer reviewed, date range changed to 2001-current year.

Narrow Results by: Afghan war, 2001-

Internet:

CIA World Factbook
The government collects statistics on all the countries of the world. You may want to look up some statistics on Afghanistan for your paper.

East Carolina University: The War on Terrorism, Afghanistan and the Taliban
This Web site gather links to several sites about the war in Afghanistan.

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