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    Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden
    Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden
    Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden
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    Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden

    Written by Peter L. Bergen

    Narrated by Peter L. Bergen

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    On September 11, 2001, the world changed forever as more than three thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. The attack was masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group -- an organization that CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen calls Holy War, Inc. One of the few Western journalists to have interviewed bin Laden face-to-face, Bergen has produced the definitive book on the global Jihadist network, revealing:

    How bin Laden lives, travels, and communicates with his "cells."
    How his role in the crushing defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan made him a hero to Muslims all over the world.
    How the bombings of the American embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen were planned and executed.
    What we can expect from Islamic extremists in the future.

    Above all, Peter Bergen helps us to see bin Laden's organization in a radically new light: as a corporation that has exploited modern technology and weaponry in the service of global terrorism and the destruction of the West.
    Both author and publisher will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to the International Committee of the Red Cross.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateNov 1, 2001
    ISBN9780743548373
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    Peter L. Bergen

    Peter Bergen is the author or editor of nine books, including three New York Times bestsellers and four Washington Post best nonfiction books of the year. A Vice President at New America, Bergen is a professor at Arizona State University and a national security analyst for CNN. He has testified before congressional committees eighteen times about national security issues and has held teaching positions at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University.

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    • 1/5
      Second most biased book i have listened to in a while
    • 5/5
      Bergen, while reporting for CNN, had extensive experience in Afghanistan prior to 9/11 including a 1987 interview with bin Laden himself. The book was actually ready to go to press with the Twin Towers came down, so Bergen's experience of that tragedy is;especially fresh. What is probably actually shocking is that after almost 10 years how relevant this book is at large. More shocking...Bergen's statement "With the capture of Kandahar on December 7 the Taliban was finished.' p.169.