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236 Between 1982 and 1985: Ibid., p. 478.
236 On October 4: Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair,
Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs, and the Press
(London: Verso, 1998), pp. 1-2, 37.
237 Alfred McCoy, whose example: U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, Office of the Inspector General, “Allegations of Connections Between CIA and Contras in Cocaine Trafficking in the United States” (1) (96-0143-IG). All quotations cited in Alfred W. McCoy, “‘Fallout’: The Interplay of CIA Covert Warfare and the Global Narcotics Traffic,” paper presented to the conference Civil War and Cold War, 15175–1990: A Comparative Analysis of Southern Africa, Central America, and Central Asia (Institute of African Studies, Columbia University, New York, N.Y., November 13-15, 2002, mimeograph), pp. 24–25.
238 Cooley cites the case: Cooley,
Unholy Wars
, p. 134.
239 Even in the German case: Sheldon Wolin, “Inverted Totalitarianism,”
The Nation
, May 19, 2003.
241 In 1997, Feith wrote: For more on the lobby, see “The Israeli Lobby,”
Prospect Magazine
(Britain), no. 73, April 2002, p. 3.
243 As Paul Finkelman: Paul Finkelman,
Dred Scott v. Sandford: A Brief History with Documents
(Boston: Bedford Books, 1997), p. 34. Also see Don E. Fehrenbacher,
The Dred Scott Case: Its Significance in American Law and Practice
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1978).
243 The idea of a single Judeo-Christian: It is worth recalling that the identification of the state and the nation with white settlers provoked two different kinds of movements: one called for a looser definition of the notion of whites so that Jews, Asians, and so on could become white; the other called for an end to white privilege, however defined.
245 Here, for example:
New York Times
, December 3, 2002.
247 Only Har’aretz, has had: Amira Hass, “The Misleading Term ‘Fence,’ “
Ha’aretz
, July 16, 2003.
250 The British and American response: David Keen, “Blair’s Good Guys in Sierra Leone,”
The Guardian
(London), November 7, 2001.
252 Those who survived: See “Afghanistan” in
Landmine Monitor Report, 2001
, available at
http://www.icbl.org/lm/2001/afghanistan/
.
256 In letters from: Quoted in Gore Vidal,
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: How We Got to Be So Hated
(New York: Nation Books, 2002), pp. ix, 81, 84-85.
258
The Guardian
(London) reported: Ian Traynor, “The Privatization of War $30 Billion Goes to Private Military; Fears Over ‘Hired Guns’ Policy,”
The Guardian
, December 10, 2003.
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Mahmood Mamdani, a third-generation East African of Indian descent, grew up in Kampala, Uganda, and received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1974. Since 1999 he has been the Herbert Lehman Professor of Government in the Departments of Anthropology and International Affairs, and director of the Institute of African Studies, at Columbia University. He taught at the University of Dar-es-Salaam in Tanzania, Makerere University in Kampala, and the University of Cape Town in South Africa before coming to New York. He lives in New York and Kampala with his wife and son.

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1. United States—Foreign relations—1945—1989. 2. Cold War. 3. United States—Foreign relations—Afghanistan. 4. Afghanistan—Foreign relations—United States. 5. United States—Foreign relations—Developing countries. 6. Developing countries—Foreign relations—United States. 7. Islam and politics—History—20th century. 8. Terrorism—Political aspects—History—20th century. 9. Drug traffic—Political aspects—History—20th century. 10. September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001—Causes.
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