As a young foreign correspondent, I undertook my first reporting assignment to Kabul in October 1979, seven months after the killing of Adolph ‘Spike’ Dubs, America’s ambassador to Afghanistan, and two months prior to the Soviet invasion of this mountainous and desert country. In my conversations with several of the few U.S. diplomats who remained … Continue reading Murder in Room 117: How the assassination of one of America’s top diplomats helped ignite Afghanistan’s war.
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