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Where in the world is Osama Bin Laden?

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Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock, who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food industry in the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even higher in Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?Spurlock is a jittery father-to-be with a simple question: If OBL is behind 9/11 and all the ensuing worldwide chaos, then why can't we just catch him? And furthermore, why is his message so compelling to so many people? So the intrepid Spurlock kisses his anxious wife goodbye and--armed with a complete lack of knowledge, experience, or expertise--sets out to make the world safe for infantkind and find the most wanted man on earth.After boning up on his basic knowledge of OBL, Islam, and the Global War on Terror--and learning how to treat "sucking chest wounds" in a "Surviving Hostile Regions" training course--he hits the Osama trail. He zigzags the globe, drawing ever closer to the heart of darkness near the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where OBL is rumored to be hiding. Along the way he interviews imams and princes, refugees and soldiers, academics and terrorists. He visits European ghettos where youth aspire to global jihad, breaks the Ramadan fast with Muslims in Cairo, rides in the bomb squad van in Tel Aviv, and writes his blood type on his Kevlar vest at a U.S. base outside of Kandahar. And then the fun really starts.Companion to the acclaimed documentary, Where in the World is Osama bin Laden? delves even deeper. What readers come away with is possibly the first-ever funny book about terrorism, as well as a greater understanding of a conflict that has cast a shadow across America and the world. www.whereisobl.comFrom the Hardcover edition.

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Random House
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304

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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [291]-295) and index.

Published in
New York
Copyright Date
2008

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363/.325
Library of Congress
HV6432 .S699 2008

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 304 p. ;
Number of pages
304

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL18608810M
Internet Archive
isbn_9781607512332
ISBN 10
1400066522
ISBN 13
9781400066520
LCCN
2008295652
OCLC/WorldCat
476169975, 191730507
Google
u2aQNMFSR3wC
Library Thing
5035912
Goodreads
2291581

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