Chapter 8Deep in the mountains of Southern Afghanistan, 180 miles from the Iranian border, there lies a widespread network of caves in one of the most remote and treacherous landscapes on earth.
These caves house the single most dangerous group of men in the world. The caves are more or less unreachable by machine and invisible to the sharpest of laser satellites. They are devoid of any traceable technology, without even the basics of power or rudimentary telecommunications.
And yet from these underground caverns there has spread a network of fanatics whose lives have been dedicated to the supremacy of fundamentalist Islam. Driven by their obsessive ambitions, these men share a belief that nothing is beyond their dreams or their power. Theirs is not a battle, or even a war. Nothing so mo
