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An edition of Bin Laden (2001)

Bin Laden

behind the mask of the terrorist

  • 2 Want to read

Osama bin Laden has presented himself to the world as a zealous freedom fighter and a deeply pious man, a de facto paragon for Muslims everywhere. Telling a far different story, this authoritative new biography lifts bin Ladena€™s mask of moral purity as it recounts his transformation from dissolute rich kid into terrorist mastermind and delineates his long campaign to bring jihad to the United States. Based on reliable information provided by members of bin Ladena€™s family and extensive independent research, Adam Robinson opens a window onto a privileged childhood riven by jealousies, family politics, and the early death of his father, and depicts the young bin Laden desperately seeking attention and acceptance. Documenting the teenagera€™s excesses in the Beirut nightclub world of hedonism, sex, and alcohol, he traces the steps that led to bin Ladena€™s transformation, via the Soviet-Afghan war and Operation Desert Storm--and with no small amount of media manipulation--into an icon in the Islamic fundamentalist world. The author shows how bin Ladena€™s business skills shaped Al-Qaeda into a kind of Terrorism, Inc., and recounts in detail the increasingly violent stages of his decade-long war against the United States, right up to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and their aftermath. At the same time he underscores the contradictions and fanaticism of a would-be Islamic hero who claims moral superiority while profiting from the opium trade, which has abetted the spread of HIV and AIDS among fellow Muslims; whose past is littered with alcohol and prostitutes; who courts publicity and seeks adulation within the Muslim world while staging modesty; who inspires his followers to commit murder in the name of a peace-loving religion; and who would go to any lengths to achieve his goal of a global Islamic fundamentalist revolution. In researching this book, the author traveled to Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Bahrain, Oman, Libya, and Pakistan. Bringing a thorough knowledge of Middle Eastern politics and society to the story, he provides insight into the character of the terrorist and offers a sobering portrait of the real Osama bin Laden.

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Mainstream
Language
English
Pages
288

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Bin Laden: Behind the Mask of the Terrorist
2002, Arcade Publishing
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Bin Laden: behind the mask of the terrorist
2002, Arcade, Distributed by AOL Time Warner Book Group
in English - 1st U.S. ed.
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Bin Laden: behind the mask of the terrorist
2001, Mainstream
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Edition Notes

Published in
Edinburgh
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
958.104/6/092, B
Library of Congress
HV6430.B55 R63 2001

The Physical Object

Pagination
288 p. ;
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL4018200M
Internet Archive
binladenbehindma0000robi_l2s0
ISBN 10
184018597X
LCCN
2001391519
OCLC/WorldCat
48415653
Library Thing
570032
Goodreads
4088851

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