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Since 1973, seven out of the past nine Afghan Presidents have taken power in Kabul in non-peaceful ways. Steve Coll talks with former Afghan Defense Minister and leader of a coup against his President, Shahnawaz Tanai, and discovers “some of the texture— the human quality— of an attempted Afghan coup d’etat”: http://nyr.kr/TuTBLg
Photograph by Robert Nickelsberg/Time Life Pictures/Getty.
