Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden (repost)
Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama Bin Laden By Osama bin Laden, Bruce Lawrence, James Howarth
Publisher: Ve.rso 2005 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 1844670457 | PDF | 3 MB
Publisher: Ve.rso 2005 | 305 Pages | ISBN: 1844670457 | PDF | 3 MB
Notable for its scope and comprehensiveness, this collection of 24 newly translated public statements by Osama bin Laden offers a nuanced and revealing view of Public Enemy No. 1. Best suited for those whose knowledge of bin Linden is based upon brief, pixilated clips or quotes gleaned from news accounts, the book will provide those who have studied the man and his rarified interpretation of Islam with little, if anything, that is new. Tracing bin Laden's ascendancy from the disgruntled Saudi exile of 1994 whose letters of complaint had a nearly timid tone (in a December 1994 letter to a Saudi judicial leader, bin Laden addresses the recipient as "Honorable sheikh" and writes, "we pray that you do not take these words out of turn or consider them to overstep the limits of etiquette.") to the bombastic jihadist leader in hiding with a $50-million bounty on his head, his statements depict not only a fiery communicator with a knack for manipulating traditional Islamic beliefs, but a revolutionary figure whose romanticized view of himself and his cause carries echoes of iconic revolutionaries past.