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Osama bin Laden

Hardcover | Pages: 292 pages

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Original Title:	Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden
ISBN:	1844670457 (ISBN13: 9781844670451)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden

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Despite the saturation of global media coverage, Osama bin Laden’s own writings have been curiously absent from analysis of the “war on terror.” Over the last ten years, bin Laden has issued a series of carefully tailored public statements, from interviews with Western and Arabic journalists to faxes and video recordings. These texts supply evidence crucial to an understanding of the bizarre mix of Quranic scholarship, CIA training, punctual interventions in Gulf politics and messianic anti-imperialism that has formed the programmatic core of Al Qaeda. In bringing together the various statements issued under bin Laden’s name since 1994, this volume forms part of a growing discourse that seeks to demythologize the terrorist network. Newly translated from the Arabic, annotated with a critical introduction by Islamic scholar Bruce Lawrence, this collection places the statements in their religious, historical and political context. It shows how bin Laden’s views draw on and differ from other strands of radical Islamic thought; it also demonstrates how his arguments vary in degrees of consistency, and how his evasions concerning the true nature and extent of his own group, and over his own role in terrorist attacks, have contributed to the perpetuation of his personal mythology.

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Title	:	Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden
Author	:	Osama bin Laden
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 292 pages
Published	:	November 17th 2005 by Verso
Categories	:	Religion. Islam. Politics. War. Terrorism. Nonfiction. History

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An invaluable resource for approaching and tackling the ideology and rhetoric of contemporary global jihadist thought.

Read for personal research - found this book's contents helpful and inspiring.A good book for the researcher and enthusiast.

An insightful read about al Qaeda and American foreign policy.

I read this book because it seemed crazy that I had seen so few of the words from someone who has been such a powerful figure in recent history. Reading his speeches definitely took away the mystery. I would have liked a little more context for the speeches and he people bin Laden refers to, but to do so might have made it too long.

Interesting insight into bin Laden's ideology and radical Islamist extremism as a whole. The translation is good, but bin Laden himself was (known to be as well) extremely long-winded.

This collection of translated and annotated statements represents a unique historical record of a defining and divisive figure. Although bin Laden appears to have been retired for some time, this shy do-gooder enjoyed a certain Robin Hood status in the Islamic world, as if he had tried to reform their world solely by force of alms. Given the possible consequences, it is worth understanding why. I happened, due to a backlog, to buy it some time before bin Laden's death and read it after, so it

The good thing about this book, besides the text of Osama's words and messages, is that it is very well annotated. Anytime Osama uses references to the Qu'ran or other Islamic works, it is identified in the footnotes. Also, other people, events, and so on are identified in order to provide context. At times, looking at some of the footnotes can be interesting. However, this is not exactly a page turner, part of the reason I gave it only two-stars. It is a bit slow reading. Yet, Osama emerges as