To begin I would like to give some background of the Author, Christina Lamb. She is a journalist from England and traveled to Afghanistan multiple times in her life. Her visits were not just after 9/11 but before as well. Today in society many people do not see and good in Afghanistan and I think the author was trying to shed some light on the country. She begins her story by describing to us how she wanted to travel to Afghanistan in October 2001 only a month after September 11, though she had been many times before she was skeptical. Lamb then proceeds to describe how she fell upon a Taliban torture in 2001. In the letters sent to her, a man describes how he was forced into the torture like, breaking spines. When I was reading this part…show more content… She meets Mullah again, and he is a religious leader that she had met in the previous 1980’s and nineties. These men, there were multiple, had taken the author and tortured her around the country. They took her on motorcycles and had tortured her and molested her. Lamb later finds out that these men were the founders of the Taliban’s and were very close friends with Osama bin Laden. These men were also the creators of the first madrassa which is a school for Muslim children though, not all were Muslims the majority are. She mentions multiple times that she was in the same room as Osama bin Laden. To me it shows in the aspect in the book that you have to be careful who you trust because obviously, in her case, the people she trusted ended up being awful men. The book continues to tell about Zahir Shah and the “royal” Afghan family. The Shah’s house was bombed by the King’s envious younger brother. This event caused the King and his family to flee to Rome and to leave their home country. Though later the King and his family return because the people were demanding for his presence to be back. Most of the stories the author covers in the next few chapters have to deal with people wanting power and about Afghan people protesting about
