ISBN: Ostalo
Godina izdanja: .
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda`s Leader
by Peter L. Bergen

Stranica : 444
Godina : 2006
KAO NOVA

No one knows more about Osama bin Laden than Peter Bergen. In 1997, well before the West suddenly became aware of the world`s most sought-after terrorist, Bergen met with him and has followed his activities ever since.

Today, years after President Bush swore to get him dead or alive and despite haunting the popular imagination since September 11, 2001, bin Laden remains shrouded in mystery and obscured by a barrage of facts, details and myths. With numerous never-before-published interviews, The Osama Bin Laden I Know provides unprecedented insight into bin Laden`s life and character drawing on the experiences of his most intimate acquaintances. This timely and important work gives readers their first true, enduring look at the man who has declared the West his greatest enemy.

`The Osama bin Laden I Know` is an unprecedented oral history of Osama bin Laden`s rise to revered leader of al Qaeda.Peter Bergen takes the reader onto the battlefields of Afghanistan as bin Laden goes from a shy, quiet teen to a leader; he brings you into Osama`s intimate family life as he lives under the radar in Sudan, then Afghanistan; he puts you right in the room for al Qaeda`s very first meeting; and he uses eyewitness accounts to relate what bin Laden said, and thought on 9/11 as he watched the twin towers fall.

Derived from Bergen`s interviews with more than 50 people who know bin Laden personally, from his highschool teacher to an early al Qaeda member who later became a US informant, `The Osama bin Laden I Know` recounts individual experiences with the man who has declared the US, and its allies, his greatest enemies.