@article{Stephenson_2011, title={Shades of gray: The Taliban phenomenon}, volume={17}, url={https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/pacific-journalism-review/article/view/383}, DOI={10.24135/pjr.v17i1.383}, abstractNote={<div class="field field-name-field-review-authors field-type-text field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even">Review book by James Fergusson</div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-name-field-issue-date field-type-date field-label-inline clearfix"> <div class="field-label">Publication date: May, 2010</div> </div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item even"> <p>’’I just can’t understand the Americans,’ an Afghan mullah tells British writer James Fergusson. ‘What they are doing makes no sense—and if they go on as they are, the whole country will rise against them.’ The mullah—an educated, apolitical man, fluent in five languages—is hauled from his bed one night by US commandos. Beaten and dragged off to the notorious Bagram detention centre, he is later released, but is so outraged he joins the Taliban.’</p> </div> </div> </div&gt;}, number={1}, journal={Pacific Journalism Review : Te Koakoa}, author={Stephenson, Jon}, year={2011}, month={May}, pages={235-237} }