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David Isby is currently a Washington-based attorney and consultant on national security issues. He is the author or three books on Afghanistan: War in a Distant Country: Afghanistan, Invasion, and Resistance; War in Afghanistan: The Soviet Empire at High Tide; and Russia's War in Afghanistan. Mr. Isby has also written numerous articles on Afghanistan, which have appeared in The Washington Times, International Defense Review, Jane's Intelligence Review, and Military Intelligence, among other pulications. He is a former special correspondent for Jane's Intelligence Review. Mr. Isby is familiar with many of the key players in Afghanistan, and has testified before a number of Congressional committees as an independent expert in this area. David Isby is a member of the Board of Directors of the Committee for a Free Afghanistan, a non-partisan educational and relief group established in 1981. He was condemned by the Soviet government (pre-glasnost) as a "bourgeois falsifier of history" and "a CIA agent with whom accounts will be settled" in recognition of his work on Afghanistan.

Mr. Isby discussed the current conflict in Afghanistan, as well as the impacts of the recent presidential election and the upcoming parliamentary elections scheduled for this September.