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Author: The Combating Terrorism Center
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Inc.
Published: 2012-06-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1620873826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects the seventeen declassified letters found in Osama bin Laden's compound by the SEAL team that took him down.
Author: Peter L. Bergen
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-08-02
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1982170530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe world’s leading expert on Osama bin Laden delivers for the first time the “riveting” (The New York Times) definitive biography of a man who set the course of American foreign policy for the 21st century and whose ideological heirs we continue to battle today. In The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden, Peter Bergan provides the first reevaluation of the man responsible for precipitating America’s long war with al-Qaeda and its decedents, capturing bin Laden in all the dimensions of his life: as a family man, as a zealot, as a battlefield commander, as a terrorist leader, and as a fugitive. The book sheds light on his many contradictions: he was the son of a billionaire yet insisted his family live like paupers. He adored his wives and children, depending on his two wives, both of whom had PhDs, to make critical strategic decisions. Yet, he also brought ruin to his family. He was fanatically religious but willing to kill thousands of civilians in the name of Islam. He inspired deep loyalty, yet, in the end, his bodyguards turned against him. And while he inflicted the most lethal act of mass murder in United States history, he failed to achieve any of his strategic goals. In his final years, the lasting image we have of bin Laden is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself, just as another dad flipping through the channels with his remote. In the end, bin Laden died in a squalid suburban compound, far from the front lines of his holy war. And yet, despite that unheroic denouement, his ideology lives on. Thanks to exclusive interviews with family members and associates, and documents unearthed only recently, Bergen’s “comprehensive, authoritative, and compelling” (H.R. McMaster, author of Dereliction of Duty and Battlegrounds: The Fight to Defend the Free World) portrait of Osama bin Laden reveals for the first time who he really was and why he continues to inspire a new generation of jihadists.
Author: Seymour M Hersh
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2016-04-01
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 1784784389
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElectrifying investigation of White House lies about the assassination of Osama bin Laden In 2011, an elite group of US Navy SEALS stormed an enclosure in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad and killed Osama bin Laden, the man the United States had begun chasing before the devastating attacks of 9/11. The news did much to boost President Obama’s first term and played a major part in his reelection victory of the following year. But much of the story of that night, as presented to the world, was incomplete, or a lie. The evidence of what actually went on remains hidden. At the same time, the full story of the United States’ involvement in the Syrian civil war has been kept behind a diplomatic curtain, concealed by doublespeak. It is a policy of obfuscation that has compelled the White House to turn a blind eye to Turkey’s involvement in supporting ISIS and its predecessors in Syria. This investigation, which began as a series of essays in the London Review of Books, has ignited a firestorm of controversy in the world media. In his introduction, Hersh asks what will be the legacy of Obama’s time in office. Was it an era of “change we can believe in” or a season of lies and compromises that continued George W. Bush’s misconceived War on Terror? How did he lose the confidence of the general in charge of America’s forces who acted in direct contradiction to the White House? What else do we not know?.
Author: Julian C. Arhire
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2016-11-30
Total Pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9781540641687
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOsama Bin Laden, founder of the al Qaeda terrorist organization, was born in Saudi Arabia in 1957. He was killed by U.S. forces in May 2011. This release consists of material that predates the 9/11 attacks. With the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001, Bin Laden was elevated to the realm of evil in the American imagination once reserved for dictators like Hitler and Stalin. He was a new national enemy, his face on wanted posters. He gloated on videotapes, taunting the United States and Western civilization. "Do you want Bin Laden dead?" a reporter asked President George W. Bush six days after the Sept. 11 attacks. "I want him - I want justice," the president answered. "And there's an old poster out West, as I recall, that said, 'Wanted: Dead or Alive.' " It took nearly a decade before that quest finally ended in Pakistan with the death of Bin Laden in a firefight with American forces who attacked a compound where officials said he had been hiding. These are scanned copies of the actual FBI file in entirety. You'll even see the hand written notes. THIS BOOK WILL ABSOLUTELY BLOW YOUR MIND. A DEFINITE MUST READ! THE FBI NEVER WANTED THE PUBLIC TO SEE THIS FILE. GET YOUR COPY NOW!
Author: Osama Bin Laden
Publisher: Pavilion Press
Published: 2004-02
Total Pages: 138
ISBN-13: 9781414507118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWar and a Global Jihad are declared on Western Civilization by a unique enemy consisting of a network including leaders of nations, sympathizers, clerics, zealots. Here are the words of their leaders.
Author: Richard Miniter
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2013-02-05
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 1621571114
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJournalist Rich Miniter uses his unparalleled access to sources and stories throughout the Middle East, Africa, and the United States. He paints a devastating portrait of how close the U.S. military was to killing bin Laden--on multiple occasions--and how, each time, Clinton dropped the ball and allowed bin Laden to grow stronger and more dangerous.
Author: Natalie Lunis
Publisher: Bearport Publishing
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 37
ISBN-13: 1617724599
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplains how the U.S. Navy SEALs tracked down and defeated the terrorist, Osama bin Laden.
Author: Chris Wallace
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-05-10
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1982176539
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChronicles the final months of the hunt for Osama Bin Laden.
Author: Steve Coll
Publisher: Penguin UK
Published: 2005-03-03
Total Pages: 736
ISBN-13: 0141935790
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe news-breaking book that has sent schockwaves through the White House, Ghost Wars is the most accurate and revealing account yet of the CIA's secret involvement in al-Qaeada's evolution. Prize-winning journalist Steve Coll has spent years reporting from the Middle East, accessed previously classified government files and interviewed senior US officials and foreign spymasters. Here he gives the full inside story of the CIA's covert funding of an Islamic jihad against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, explores how this sowed the seeds of bn Laden's rise, traces how he built his global network and brings to life the dramatic battles within the US government over national security. Above all, he lays bare American intelligence's continual failure to grasp the rising threat of terrrorism in the years leading to 9/11 - and its devastating consequences.
Author: Susan Jeffords
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-01-30
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0252096827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStarting in 2001, much of the world media used the image of Osama bin Laden as a shorthand for terrorism. Bin Laden himself considered media manipulation on a par with military, political, and ideological tools, and intentionally used interviews, taped speeches, and distributed statements to further al-Qaida's ends. In Covering Bin Laden, editors Susan Jeffords and Fahed Yahya Al-Sumait collect perspectives from global scholars exploring a startling premise: that media depictions of Bin Laden not only diverge but often contradict each other, depending on the media provider and format, the place in which the depiction is presented, and the viewer's political and cultural background. The contributors analyze the representations of the many Bin Ladens, ranging from Al Jazeera broadcasts to video games. They examine the media's dominant role in shaping our understanding of terrorists and why/how they should be feared, and they engage with the ways the mosaic of Bin Laden images and narratives have influenced policies and actions around the world. Contributors include Fahed Al-Sumait, Saranaz Barforoush, Aditi Bhatia, Purnima Bose, Ryan Croken, Simon Ferrari, Andrew Hill, Richard Jackson, Susan Jeffords, Joanna Margueritte-Giecewicz, Noha Mellor, Susan Moeller, Brigitte Nacos, Courtney C. Radsch, and Alexander Spencer.
