The United States Army in Afghanistan: Operation Enduring Freedom, March 2002 - April 2005 - Creating the Afghan National Army, Taliban, al Qaeda, President Karzai

The sallow faced punk with the corpse like appearance who had singled her out, bopped with her at the disco, the flashing coloured lights reflecting his expression of lust, eyes that bored into her, undressed her so expertly that at one stage she had almost believed herself to be naked. It was, in the end, a hopeless task, of course.

Responsible directly to the president on intelligence matters, he had argued vociferously about the soviet behavior in cuba since the terrible happening at the bay of pigs.