Osama : the making of a terrorist

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Label

Osama : the making of a terrorist

Title remainder

the making of a terrorist

Statement of responsibility

Jonathan Randal

Creator

• Randal, Jonathan C., 1933-

Subject

• Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011
• Qaida (Organization)
• trueTerrorism -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Terrorists -- Afghanistan -- Biography
• Terrorists -- Saudi Arabia -- Biography

Language

eng

Summary

• Jonathan Randal - a journalist whose experience of the Middle East spans the past forty years - makes clear how Osama's life epitomizes the fatal collision between twenty-first-century Islam and the West, and he describes the course of Osama's estrangement from both the West and the Saudi petro-monarchy of which his family is a part. He examines Osama's terrorist activities before September 11, 2001, and shows us how, after the attack on the World Trade Center, Osama presented the West with something new in the annals of contemporary terrorism: an independently wealthy entrepreneur with a seemingly worldwide following ready to do his bidding. Randal explores the possibility that Osama offered the Saudis his Al-Qaeda forces to drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait in 1991; he traces the current sources of Osama's money; and he tells us why the Iraq war has played into the hands of the terrorists.
• "With his long-maintained sources in the Middle East and his intimate understanding of the region, Randal gives us a clearer explanation than any we have had of the whys and wherefores of the world's most prominent and feared terrorist operated."--Back cover

Biography type

individual biography

Dewey number

958.1

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography