Bin Laden- The Man Who Declared War on America

Description

Author:
Yossef Bodansky

Publisher:
Forum an imprint of Prima Publishing

Year:
1999, 2001

Description:
Who is Osama bin Laden- the only terrorist leader ever to have declared a holy was 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 American lives, including the bombing of the USS Cole in 2000 and the destructioin of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. And then he was linked to the catastrophic assaults on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

Here is a comprehensive account of the rise of Ben 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. 439 pages paperback.