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Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America Paperback – September 21, 2001

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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.
"This fascinating account of Osama bin Laden's war against America illustrates the murky world of Islamic extremism and state sponsored terrorism."
—Jeane J. Kirkpatrick, Leavey Professor, Department of Government, Georgetown University
"Americans need to know about Osama bin Laden, and the best place to find out is in this trenchant study of the man. A brilliant work."
—Fred Barnes, executive editor of The Weekly Standard
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  1. Print length
    464 pages
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  3. Publisher
    Prima Lifestyles
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    September 21, 2001
  5. Dimensions
    5.95 x 1.17 x 8.96 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0761535810
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0761535812
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  • Kay Kelly
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bin Laden comes off surprisingly well!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2002
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    ... I found it fascinating. Its central theme is the author's insistence that sponsoring states, especially Iran, are behind all the Islamist terrorism of recent years. ...
    I don't have the expertise to judge Bodansky's claims. But I find it interesting that for him, the true villains seem to be unscrupulous government officials. Bin Laden comes off well.
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    Bodansky tells a different story. He explains the background of the Islamist movement. Then he mentions specific things that happened when bin Laden was in his teens, that contributed to turning Saudi youth against "Westernization." He also reports an atrocity of that earlier Afghan war, for which bin Laden wrongly believed the U.S. was responsible.
    He goes on to say that after the war, bin Laden seemed ready to settle down. Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait changed everything. Bin Laden, with genuine war-hero credentials, tried to persuade his government to let him put together a Muslim force to defend the country and liberate Kuwait. They turned him down. (One wonders how different history might be if they'd let him try.)
    Bodansky says bin Laden was far from alone in opposing the presence of U.S. forces in Saudi Arabia. He was actually a moderate among Saudi Islamists. But the government didn't appreciate his moderate stance, and tried to muzzle him. When it became clear the Americans would be there for the long haul, he had to leave--to protect his extended family from threatened economic reprisals.
    Bodansky says he apparently didn't go to Sudan to become an agitator. Once again, he was ready to settle down. The Sudanese recruited him for the international terrorist movement--initially, because of his expertise at setting up financial networks. Within the movement, he became a loyal team player who rose gradually through the ranks. There's no indication he's ever been power-hungry.
    I've seen criticism of Bodansky's claims about an alleged "deal" between the Clinton Administration and Islamists. (Note: I'm a left-of-center Democrat.) The critics have overlooked his statement that the same CIA agent approached Ayman al-Zawahiri a decade earlier, when Republicans were in power. Zawahiri supposedly broke off that contact because he thought he was being asked for $50 million. The second time around, the [individual] made clear he was offering that sum. But Bodansky doesn't claim any money was paid. If his story is true, it's possible the whole thing was CIA skullduggery.
    His point, however, is that the Islamists believed they had a deal and were betrayed. They promised not to do certain things in the Balkans; their agents didn't do those things, and the U.S. had them arrested anyway.
    Writing in 1999, Bodansky actually mentions a three-nation terror "axis"! His axis--more plausible than Bush's--consists of Iran, Iraq, and Syria. He claims Iran and Syria are the two main terrorist-sponsoring states, and they don't want to see Iraq taken over by a pro-Western regime because it's the land route between them.
    I am puzzled by small discrepancies that make me less trusting of the work as a whole. I have no way of knowing who's wrong. But Bodansky mentions bin Laden's father being alive when he was a young man; I've heard elsewhere that he died in a helicopter accident when Osama was 13. Also, Bodansky translates "al-Qaida"--which he says was originally the name of a semi-bogus charity, wrongly applied to the actual terrorist group--as "Islamic Salvation." Other sources say it means "The Base," and refers to a computer database of supporters' names.
    I was disappointed that this book makes no mention of the rumors about bin Laden's health. Perhaps they weren't circulating in 1999. ...
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  • Ryan B.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great book!!
    Reviewed in the United States on July 25, 2022
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    Great book! And a great seller. 10/10 would recommend!!!!
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  • Tim Miltz
    5.0 out of 5 stars This book was published in 1999. Bodansky is tops.
    Reviewed in the United States on January 11, 2015
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    It is quite peculiar to me this book was published in 1999. Bodansky does not let you down. In fact, I'm just puzzled how CIA failed to get a copy of this when it was published. I bet John ONeal had a copy.
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  • Rey Camp
    4.0 out of 5 stars Insight into the Demon's Cespool, Caves filled withSewage
    Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2001
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    I heard Mr. Bodansky interviewed on NPR and turned to the only source for this book at the time, Amazon. He was brilliant in his analysis and extremely comprehensive, so the book seemed the next best step to following his ideas. I must say that the book was a bit overwhelming, but extremely useful. He truly opens the unsavory, sick, pathetic world of Islamic extremism to the average reader. The human refuse who pollute these pages are in such numbers and pass, page by page, in such succession I found myself mystified by their presence on the world scene unhindered in their passage from east to west.
    Whatever else this book teaches, surely most important is that alien beings walk openly under Western skies and will remain a danger to innocents for some time to come. Bin Laden and the defecation he ministers, the stench he releases into our free world is but a point of focus, an image to grasp in a poppy field of black blooms, a kind of ooze seeping from his decayed, cultural landfill through one of many openings into the groundwater of our world.
    This book is a must read for any concerned Western Thinker living above and unaccustomed to the creeps that promote hate from below.
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  • John Nagle
    5.0 out of 5 stars Bin Laden before 9/11
    Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2014
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    Published before 9/11, this is an important book. This describes bin Laden's plan to weaken the US. The plan was to do some terrorist acts and make the US overreact, ruining the world's image of the US as the model to be followed.

    Mission accomplished.
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  • "amazonbreaux"
    2.0 out of 5 stars Bodansky Biased
    Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2001
    Here's the deal; I am middle of the road politically, but have leaned conservative in terms of the current crisis. First of all, I thought this would be a biography of bin Laden, but it really isn't. It's full of detailed minutae about terrorist organizations; a dizzying, detailed cloud of specific dates, names, summits, meetings, declarations, communiques, etc. Bodansky doesn't focus on bin Laden and the book is lacking in the big picture department.
    Second, I wondered how Bodansky could know all of these "facts." He details the names, dates, locations, even conversations of SECRET terrorist meetings and SECRET agreements and SECRET government sponsorships of terrorists. I looked up his list of sources: it's all newspaper articles, most of them from Arab publications. Most of the time he simply states information as objective fact (he knows how the intelligence organizations of closed societies like Iran and Saudi Arabia collect information, make decisions, etc.) with zero footnotes or reference to sources. Sometimes he mentions the information came from a named source; the vast majority of the time oral sources are POSITIVELY ANONYMOUS.
    Third, he leans, bends, prostrates in a blatantly conservative direction. He roundly blasts Clinton at several points, even claiming that "if certain terrorist sources are to be believed" Clinton made an evil deal with the Islamists; supposedly that the US would tolerate the overthrow of the Egyptian government and installation of an Islamist regime in return for no terrorist attacks on US troops in Bosnia.
    I was further perplexed by his claim that the President of Iran, widely considered to be a moderate in favor of liberal reforms, is personally involved in planning terrorist acts against the US. Bodansky asserts that Iran was behind the bombings of US embassies in Africa. Really? Why haven't the American people been told? It took us years to figure out a couple of Libyans were responsible for the Lockerbie disaster. Once we had the facts we were relentless in our pressure on Libya to hand them over. If our government knows Iran bombed our embassies, why are we not doing the same with them? The cause of the crash of TWA flight 800 has never been determined. But omnicient Bodansky knows it was IN FACT a terrorist bombing, that Tehran was behind it, he even knows the type and placement of the explosive; "A small, twin-charge bomb was placed against the middle of the forward wall of the central fuel tank... The twin charges were a blast charge made of powerful plastic explosives (SEMTEX-H class)... The direction of the explosion was toward the tail of the aircraft (p.179)."
    The back of the book says Bodansky is "an internationally renowned military and threat analyst, is the director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism..." I noticed that both of the plug quotes on the book are from staunch conservatives: Jean Kirkpatrick (former Reagan appointee who fired off a letter with fellow arch conservatives to President Bush urging expansion of the war to Iran and Iraq) and Fred Barnes.
    I did some research on Bodansky on the internet and found a biography (biased also, as it is written by Fred Abood of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee, but the only profile of Bodansky my search found) that states: 1) Bodansky was the editor of the Israeli Air Force's official magazine in the 1970's, 2) , Bodansky became the technical director of the newsletter JINSA (The Jewish Institute of National Security Affairs), 3) . In the early years of the first Reagan administration (1980-84), Bodansky was hired as a Defense Department consultant, 4) In 1985, shortly after Naval intelligence employee Jonathan Pollard was caught as an Israeli spy, Bodansky dropped out of sight. According to sources, Bodansky was one of Pollard's controllers and had, they say, always operated as an agent of LEKEM, the Israeli defense ministry's technological espionage branch, 5) . In 1989, Bodansky became director of the House REPUBLICAN (my caps) Research Committee's "Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare."
    The man is a former Israeli citizen who now works for REPUBLICAN congresspeople. In fact, the "task force" is unofficial. It's a body dreamed up by Republicans, given an official sounding name, and appointed conservative members. (Rep. Saxton, the "task force " chair, admits as much in his remarks to Congress on August 7, 1998; "As the chairman of a group of Republicans... [known as] the Task Force on Terrorism and U.N. Conventional Warfare.") This blasts Bodansky positively out of the orbit of what we would call "objectivity." My concern is that people will buy this book, thinking it's an objective account of bin Laden and the Islamist movement, as I did (this book is now a best seller here at Amazon; it glares off the shelves as the featured bin Laden book at a major book chain). I did a search on bin Laden books and thought, hey, here's one that sounds good, and bought it. I'm sure much of this stuff is true; a great deal jibes with what I've read since 9/11 (Pakistan has been an incubator for terrorism, Saudi Arabia has tons of Islamist sympathizers and citizen patrons, etc.) but I have no doubts much of the content is pro-Israel rhetoric. And it's packaged in a way that makes it sound like an objective study, which it clearly ain't. Which parts are true and what is propaganda I couldn't say. But I can say for certain it's a dry read chock full of minutae, NOT a biography of bin Laden, and deviously biased.
    Americans want to know about bin Laden, and this book clearly appears to be the number one book they are snatching up to learn about him and the Islamists. It is shaping opinions with false, biased, uncited information, and this is positively dangerous.
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