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" Osama bin Laden / "
Michael Scheuer
Document Type
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BL
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Record Number
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711728
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Doc. No
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b533917
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Main Entry
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Scheuer, Michael
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Title & Author
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Osama bin Laden /\ Michael Scheuer
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Publication Statement
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Oxford [England] ;New York :: Oxford University Press,, 2011
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Page. NO
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xi, 278 pages ;; 22 cm
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ISBN
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0199738661
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: 9780199738663
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Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [189]-262) and index
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Contents
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Osama bin Laden as subject -- Education, 1957-1979 -- Apprenticeship, 1979-1989 -- Nomad, 1989-1996 -- Organizer, 1996-2001 -- Survivor and planner, 2001-2010 -- The bin Laden era
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Abstract
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Available biographies depict Osama bin Laden as a historical figure, the mastermind behind 9/11, but no longer relevant to the world it created. In this book, Scheuer, the first head of the CIA's bin Laden Unit, provides a closely reasoned portrait of bin Laden
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Subject
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Bin Laden, Osama,1957-2011
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Bin Laden, Osama,1957-2011-- Political and social views
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Bin Laden, Osama,1957-2011-- Psychology
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Subject
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Islamic fundamentalism-- Political aspects
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Terrorism-- Religious aspects-- Islam
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Subject
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Terrorists-- Saudi Arabia, Biography
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Subject
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Islamic countries, Relations, Western countries
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Subject
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Western countries, Relations, Islamic countries
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LC Classification
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HV6430.B55S33 2011
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