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Synopsis
Who is Osama bin Laden—the only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war? What drives him and those he leads to hate a West that helped enrich and arm them? Bin Laden’s name has been linked to a number of incidents that have cost Americans their lives, including the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 and the destruction of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Now, he is linked to the catastrophic assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Here is a comprehensive account of the rise of bin Laden. In meticulous detail, world-renowned terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky uncovers the events in bin Laden’s life that turned the once-promising engineering student into a cold-blooded leader of radical Islam. In the process, Bodansky reveals a chilling story that is as current as today’s headlines but as ancient as the Crusades, a story that transcends bin Laden and any other single man. This book is a sobering wake-up call.
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This book's very complexity is a sober testiment to the confusion most Americans feel when trying to understand why militant Islamic terrorists hate us so much. How is it possible that nations that have sent their best students to our best universities in order to receive a quality education, that welcome our technology, and whose citizens enjoy the material objects we all desire (cars, TVs, computers, etc.) can breed people who think nothing of destroying buildings along with themselves? This is not a standard biography of bin Laden; there is very little known about him, and Bodansky focuses more on the man's actions than on the man himself. The mind-numbing details of organizations, splinters of those organizations, mullahs, sheiks, scholars, political groups, and shifting alliances will overwhelm the average listener. There is also no real explanation of how the terrorists use the Koran as the justification for their deeds. Most Americans are just incapable of entering the mind of bin Laden and getting even a glimmer of why his hatred is so virulent. Nadia May possesses excellent skills in pronouncing the often difficult Arab names, terms, and organizations. The price of the CD version of the book places it in the range of only the largest libraries; other institutions may want to consider the much less-expensive print or cassette editions.
Joseph L. Carlson, Lompoc P.L., CA
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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