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Free Press, August 2006
Trade Paperback, 528 pages
ISBN-10: 0743278925
ISBN-13: 9780743278928
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No one knows more about Osama bin Laden than Peter Bergen. In 1997, well before the West suddenly became aware of the world's most sought-after terrorist, Bergen met with him and has followed his activities ever since.
Today, years after President Bush swore to get him dead or alive and despite haunting the popular imagination since September 11, 2001, bin Laden remains shrouded in mystery and obscured by a barrage of facts, details and myths. With numerous never-before-published interviews, The Osama Bin Laden I Know provides unprecedented insight into bin Laden's life and character drawing on the experiences of his most intimate acquaintances. This timely and important work gives readers their first true, enduring look at the man who has declared the West his greatest enemy.
"Highly illuminating. Peter Bergen, an experienced reporter as well as an academic, stands out among terrorism 'experts' for his breadth of experience and clear-headedness. Bergen has done a fine job of researching and compiling a very wide range of oral testimony. What emerges is a fascinating sequence of oblique-angled perspectives, casting light on the underlying motives of bin Laden and his companions and revealing some of his less-remarked but significant adventures."
-- Max Rodenbeck, The New York Review of Books
"A coherent and dramatic account. How appropriate that the short biographies of those cited are gathered under the rubric 'Dramatis Personae.' This is a compelling story well told. There is plenty of evil, but thanks to Bergen's ability to bring out the human dimensions of the individuals involved, the banality of evil is not lacking either."
-- L. Carl Brown, Foreign Affairs
"Peter L. Bergen has written what will long be the 'go-to' resource . . . a chronological record of what is known about bin Laden from his birth in 1957 to 2005, assembled by stringing together statements from bin Laden and those who taught him, met him, worked with him, or interviewed him over those forty-eight years."
-- Richard A. Clarke, The Washington Post
Abu Dhabi National, January 7, 2010
...doubt. A few of these books have been serious, such as Jonathan Randals Osama and Peter Bergens The Osama bin Laden I Know. However, the majority are filled with inaccuracies and in some cases sensationalist fabrications. In one dubious ...
Abu Dhabi National, January 7, 2010
...doubt. A few of these books have been serious, such as Jonathan Randals Osama and Peter Bergens The Osama bin Laden I Know. However, the majority are filled with inaccuracies and in some cases sensationalist fabrications. In one dubious ...
NPR, December 3, 2009
...hear the latest [4 min 45 sec] Latest NPR Newscast // getExpVariant(expId, numVariants) else else else // Peter Bergen, ssessing The Threat In fghanistanDecember 3, 2009udio for this story from from WHYY will be available at approx. 5:00 ...
CNN, October 26, 2009
...Peter Bergen: Most Americans now oppose the war in Afghanistan He says U.S., Afghan government don't provide basic security Hobbes said life in nations without security is "nasty, brutish ...
CNN, October 26, 2009
...Peter Bergen: Most Americans now oppose the war in Afghanistan He says U.S., Afghan government don't provide basic security Hobbes said life in nations without security is "nasty, brutish ...
Southern Pines Pilot, September 17, 2009
...CNN National Security Analyst Peter Bergen will discuss 'Beyond The Kite Runner: Exploring Afghanistan Today' as part of the Ruth Pauley Lecture Series. The lecture will be held at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in ...
Jamestown Foundation, March 14, 2009
...The Accidental Guerilla Q&A Panel Three: Stabilizing FATA 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. Discussant: Peter Bergen Senior Fellow, New America Foundation, and Author of Holy War Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Bin Laden Mukhtar Khan 'Taliban ...
CNN, January 9, 2009
...Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst and a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington and at New York University's Center on Law and Security. His most ...
CNN, January 8, 2009
...Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst and a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington and at New York University's Center on Law and Security. His most ...
CNN, January 8, 2009
...Editor's note: Peter Bergen is CNN's national security analyst and a fellow at the New America Foundation in Washington and at New York University's Center on Law and Security. His most ...
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