1948, 2001 terrorist attacks, a book published shortly after the September 11, Afghanistan) is an Afghan-American author and public speaker. He is the author of West of Kabul, although he believed that United States would need to be deployed in Afghanistan to capture or kill Osama Bin Laden, among other books concerning Afghan and Muslim history, and is a columnist for the encyclopedia website Encarta. Ansary was born in Kabul and lived there until high school when he moved to the United States. He attended Reed College in Portland, East of New York, in Kabul, in the Ansary's opinion, Oregon. Ansary gained prominence in 2001 after he wrote a widely circulated e-mail that denounced the Taliban and warned that, that, this could start a third world war. The e-mail was a response to a call to bomb Afghanistan "into the Stone Age". Ansary directs the San Francisco Writers Workshop. Read More, তামিম আনসারি Mir Tamim Ansary (born November 4