Description |
xx, 619 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 25 cm |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [525]-597) and index. |
Contents |
"Shit. I think we bit off more than we could chew." -- "Terrorism is a duty and assassination is a Sunnah." -- "These Arabs...they have killed Afghans. They have trained their guns on Afghan lives...We want them out." -- "Poor ones, this is not how revenge is, or will be." -- "The banging was so strong that I felt at some point that my skull was in pieces." -- "If you bid us plunge into the ocean, we would follow you." -- "The reprisals of the mujahideen shall come like lightning bolts." -- "We will get you, CIA team, inshallah, we will bring you down." -- "I'm back with the people I was with before." -- "We go to a house, we fuck with some people, and we leave. This is just a longer fight." -- "What really happened doesn't matter if there is an official story behind it that 99.999% of the world would believe." -- "It is going to be worse when my father dies. The world is going to be very, very nasty...it will be a disaster." -- "It will be just the end of the beginning rather than the beginning of the end." |
Summary |
Documents the inside story of Al Qaeda and its post-September 11 activities, drawing on interviews with the wives, military associates, spiritual advisors and radical followers of Osama bin Laden to trace his gradual loss of power and eventual defeat. |
Subject |
Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011.
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Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011 -- Family.
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Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011. (OCoLC)fst01761332
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Terrorists -- Biography.
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Terrorism.
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HISTORY / United States / 21st Century.
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Families. (OCoLC)fst01728849
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Terrorism. (OCoLC)fst01148101
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Terrorists. (OCoLC)fst01148160
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Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Biography. (OCoLC)fst01423686
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Added Author |
Levy, Adrian, 1965- author.
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ISBN |
9781620409848 (hardback) |
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1620409844 (hardback) |
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