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Steve coll, author of ghost wars, has a new book about the history of the bin laden family. The saudi royals and the bin ladens led parallel lives, each dependent on the goodwill of a their respective enablers. Jean sasson talked by remote access from atlanta about her book, growing up bin laden. The twotime pulitzer prize winner and author of the bestseller ghost wars presents the story of the bin laden familys rise to power and privilege, revealing how american influences. With the publication of ghost wars, steve coll became not only a pulitzer prize winner, but also the expert on the rise of the taliban, the emergence of bin laden, and the secret efforts by cia officers and their agents to capture or kill bin laden in afghanistan after 1998. Steve coll is most recently the author of the new york times bestseller the bin ladens.
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David malone trafford publishing, 2005 briefly revised in 2010. Starting in 2001, much of the world media used the image of osama bin laden as a shorthand for terrorism. Bin laden himself considered media manipulation on a par with military, political, and ideological tools, and intentionally used interviews, taped speeches, and distributed statements to further alqaidas ends. Osamas wife and son take us inside their secret world. Mohammed bin laden, the yemeni family patriarch, started his career as an illiterate bricklayer, whose hard work and dedication enabled him to rise quickly in. The story of a family and its fortune steve coll allen lane rs 695,pp 671. An oral history of al qaedas leader an oral history of al qaedas leader peter l. The bin ladins are an intriguing family even aside from osama, and steve coll has written a fascinating account of their history.
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