Messages to the World The Statements of Osama Bin Laden

Name: Messages to the World The Statements of Osama Bin Laden
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ISBN: 9781844670451

ISBN-10: 1844670457

ISBN-13: 9781844670451

Edition: 2005 (Annotated)

Authors: Osama Bin Laden, Bruce Lawrence, James Howarth

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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…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Verso Books
Publication date: 11/17/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 292
Size: 6.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English

Bruce B. Lawrence is Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor and professor of Islamic studies at Duke University. He is author of New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life.




From Sudan 1994-1995



The betrayal of Palestine



The invasion of Arabia



In Khurasan 1996-1998



Declaration of Jihad



The Saudi regime



From Somalia to Afghanistan



The world Islamic front



Towards 9/11 1998-2001



A Muslim bomb



Under Mullah Omar



To our brothers in Pakistan



The winds of faith



Terror for terror



War in Afghanistan 2001-2002



Crusader wars



The example of Vietnam



Nineteen students



To the people of Afghanistan



To the Americans



To the allies of America



War in Iraq 2003-2004



To the people of Iraq



Among a band of knights



Quagmires of the Tigris and Euphrates



Resist the new Rome



To the peoples of Europe



The towers of Lebanon



Depose the tyrants