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Messages to the World - The Statements of Osama Bin Laden (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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Messages to the World - The Statements of Osama Bin Laden (Paperback, Annotated edition)
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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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