Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America
Yossef Bodansky
Language: English
Pages: 451
ISBN: B00LZMHXMU
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
Who is Osama bin Laden—the only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy war against America? What drives him and those he leads to hate a West that helped enrich and arm them? Bin Laden's name has been linked to a number of incidents that have cost Americans their lives, including the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 and the destruction of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Now, he is linked to the recent catastrophic assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
Here is a comprehensive account of the rise of bin Laden. In meticulous detail, world-renowned terrorism expert Yossef Bodansky uncovers the events in bin Laden's life that turned the once-promising engineering student into a cold-blooded leader of radical Islam. In the process, Bodansky reveals a chilling story that is as current as today's headlines but as ancient as the Crusades—a story that transcends bin Laden and any other single man. This book is a sobering wake-up call.
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wing root. These explosions, which destroyed the aircraft, were seen by witnesses on the ground. The circumstances of the downing of TWA800 make it virtually impossible to acquire conclusive forensic data or any other absolute proof of the reasons for the explosion. The main area around the explosion, forward sections of the fuel tank, evaporated. Most of the missing parts and all the missing bodies are from the area covered by rows 17 to 28—just above the fuel tank—in particular right-side rows
There the terrorists’ skills and expertise were further upgraded after a few months of intensive training. The Arab “Afghans” were then regrouped and sent back to Afghanistan with the help of Qazi Hussein Ahmad, the leader of the Pakistani Islamic Group. Consequently in spring 1996 a solid, well-organized base emerged for the “Afghans” and “Balkans” in Afghanistan. This infrastructure was ready for the arrival of Osama bin Laden and his assets. On arriving in Afghanistan, bin Laden established
aftermath of an accidental plane crash that killed Sudanese vice president al-Zubayr Muhammad Salih and many other high officials. Osama bin Laden used the occasion to send a letter to Turabi, urging him to authorize the launching of a genuine terrorist campaign along the principles agreed on at Turabi’s own urging in the summer of 1997. “This tragedy [the crash] has come at a time when the international Christian crusade is rushing madly against our country Sudan and against the heart of the
two of bin Laden’s senior military commanders, Muhammad Abu-Islam and Abdallah Qassim, visited Baghdad between April 25 and May 1 for discussions with Iraqi intelligence. The importance of these contacts to Baghdad was shown by their meeting with Qusay Hussein, Saddam’s son, who is now responsible for intelligence matters and was personally involved in both the Iraqi contribution to the Somalia operation and later the intelligence cooperation with Iran. Both sides were very satisfied with the
plight of the Kosovo Albanians, the Islamists’ hostility and defiance increased. The April 2.3 sermon in al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, one month into the NATO bombing, elucidated the Islamists’ frustration and rage. “The Balkans will be part of the coming Islamic State against the will of the Serbians, against the will of the Europeans, and against the will of the Americans. The Americans are working now to evacuate the Balkans from its Muslim inhabitants so as to prevent the establishment of an
