"Unless he dies a natural death in hiding, it seems inevitable that sooner or later his hunter will catch him. If captured alive, he will doubtless be killed on the spot." -from the introduction
Osama bin Laden is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family
and the founding leader of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda.
Bruce Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor
of Religion at Duke University. He is the author of New Faiths, Old
Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious
Life, Shattering the Myth, and Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist
Revolt Against the Modern Age.
A magnificent piece of eloquent, at times even poetic Arabic prose
... in devising strategies to fight the terrorists, it would be
useful to understand the forces that drive them.
*Foreign Affairs*
Expertly edited.
*Independent*
Western media have made no consistent effort to publish bin Laden's
statements, thereby failing to give their audience the words that
put his thoughts and actions in cultural and historical context ...
Bin Laden has been precise in telling America the reasons he is
waging war on us. None of the reasons have anything to do with our
freedom, liberty and democracy, but have everything to do with US
policies and actions in the Muslim world.
*Michael Scheuer*
Despite the religious rhetoric and the bloody means, bin Laden is a
rational man. There is a simple reason why he attacked the US:
American imperialism. As long as America seeks to control the
Middle East, he and people like him will be its enemy.
*Michael Mann*
This vital collection of Bin Laden's statements ... provides an
invaluable insight into his thinking by bringing his disparate
pronouncements within a single set of covers.
*Sunday Times*
Here, with a shrewd, scholarly introduction from Bruce Lawrence, is
the complete bin Laden reader.
*Observer*
Collectively, these messages are the closest we will ever have to
the terrorist leader's Mein Kampf.
*Independent on Sunday*
The first complete collection of the Saudi's statements published
today portrays a world in which Islam's enemies will take the first
steps towards salvation by embracing the 'religion of all the
Prophets.'
*Daily Telegraph*
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