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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817542503321

Autore

Scheuer Michael

Titolo

Osama bin Laden / / Michael Scheuer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-19-975304-0

0-19-025246-4

1-282-97779-2

9786612977794

0-19-975327-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Disciplina

363.325092

B

Soggetti

Terrorists - Saudi Arabia

Terrorism - Religious aspects - Islam

Islamic fundamentalism - Political aspects

Islamic countries Relations Western countries

Western countries Relations Islamic countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Osama bin Laden as subject -- Education, 1957-1979 -- Apprenticeship, 1979-1989 -- Nomad, 1989-1996 -- Organizer, 1996-2001 -- Survivor and planner, 2001-2010 -- The bin Laden era -- Epilogue.

Sommario/riassunto

9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Patriot Act, water boarding and Guantanamo are examples of its profound and far-reaching effects. But despite its monumental impact--and a deluge of books about al-Qaeda and Islamist terrorism--no one has written a serious assessment of the man who planned it, Osama bin Laden. Available biographies depict bin Laden as an historical figure, the mastermind behind 9/11, but no longer relevant to the world it created. These accounts, Michael Scheuer strongly believes, have contributed to