The Osama bin Laden I Know
An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
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Word Count
132,000 words, Guess
Page Count
528 pages
Physical Format
Paperback
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveosamabinladenikn0000berg_n8c8
- Internet Archiveosamabinladenikn0000berg_w3k8
- ISBN-100743278925
- ISBN-139780743278928
- Goodreads145262
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- Library of Congress Control Number2006281152
- OCLC Control Number70826532
- Better World BooksO7-AGH-331
- Better World Books9780743278928
- Better World BooksW6-CFP-112
- Open LibraryOL7948596M
Classifications
- LCCHV6430 .B55 B474 2006b
- LCCHV6430.B55B474 2006b
Description
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 high school 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.
First Sentence
Osama bin Laden grew up during the 1960s and 1970s in what was then the sleepy city of Jeddah, a port on the Red Sea, which for the past millennia and a half has served as a gateway to the holy city of Mecca, thirty miles away.
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