UID:
edocfu_9959226698902883
Format:
1 online resource (293 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-19-975304-0
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0-19-025246-4
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1-282-97779-2
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9786612977794
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0-19-975327-X
Content:
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
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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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.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-989839-1
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-973866-1
Language:
English
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