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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.
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...
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Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden is a 292-page book published by Verso Books which documents 24 translated public statements by Osama bin Laden from December 29, 1994 through December 16, 2004.
Messages to the world: the statements of Osama Bin Laden. Edited and introduced by Bruce Lawrence. Translated by James Howarth. London: Verso, 2005. xxiii, 292 pp. ISBN 1-84467-045-7. By the standards unveiled since President Bush proclaimed a “War on Terrorism” following the 9/11 tragedy in New York the world’s most wanted terrorist ...
In order to understand the appeal of Bin Laden, it is necessary to escape the media coverage and CIA biographical portraits and read his own words. With this text the major messages of Bin Laden are available in English, with valuable annotation and an eloquent introduction by historian of religion Bruce Lawrence.
Summary: Presents annotated English translations of the Arabic texts of statements made by Osama bin Laden between 1994 and 2004, including his comments on the terrorist attacks on the U.S. in 2001, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Print Book, English, 2005. Edition: View all formats and editions. Publisher: Verso, London, 2005.
