Osama: The Making of a Terrorist
Dec 2007 · Sold by Vintage
1.0star
1 review
Ebook
368
Pages
family_home
Eligible
info
About this ebook
How is it possible for one middle-aged Saudi millionaire to threaten the world's only superpower? This is the question at the center of Jonathan Randal's riveting, timely account of Osama bin Laden's life and role in the rise of terrorism in the Middle East. Randal traces the current sources of Osama's money and tells us why the Iraq war has played into the hands of the terrorists, while also providing essential insight and background on the history of American involvement in the Middle East. With his long-maintained sources in the Middle East and his intimate understanding of the region, Randal gives us a clearer explanation than any we have had of the whys and wherefores of the world's most prominent and feared terrorist.
Ratings and reviews
1.0
1 review
masley vystupoe
- Flag inappropriate
October 22, 2014
'How it is possible?' says the title, well it simple wasn't. So don't buy (pun intended) into this work based on the misconception that 911 was done by boxcutter hijackers led by a man in a cave somewhere off grid in Tora Bora. Unless you want to feed the myth of course. The myth of Santa Claus for kids but this is the myth of OBL for grown ups. All because people take the news reports on their window of the world teevee for granted. Don't buy (pun intended) into this work based on the misconception that 911 was done by boxcutter hijackers. Nothing is further from the truth. Watch "Anatomy of a Great Deception" by David Hooper. Rest assured. He puts it in a very friendly and interesting way. Nothing is further from the truth. Watch "Anatomy of a Great Deception" by David Hooper. Rest assured. He puts it in a very friendly and interesting way.
About the author
Jonathan Randal was born in 1933 in Buffalo, New York, and educated at Exeter and Harvard. He spent his junior year in France, and after serving as a private in the U.S. Army in Europe, he started out as a foreign correspondent in the mid-1950s in Paris and over the decades has worked for United Press, the old Paris Herald, Time, The New York Times and, for nearly thirty years, The Washington Post. As a war correspondent he reported the Algerian War of Independence from France, followed by wars and crises in the Congo, Vietnam, Iran, Lebanon, Kurdistan, Bosnia, Liberia, and a dozen other combat zones. He considers himself privileged to have witnessed these events and lucky to have survived when so many of his colleagues did not. Randal is the author of Going All the Way: Christian Warlords, Israeli Adventurers and the War in Lebanon and After Such Knowledge, What Forgiveness? My Encounters with Kurdistan.
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
