Holy War, Inc., Peter L. Bergen
Holy War, Inc., Peter L. Bergen
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Holy War, Inc.
Inside the Secret World of Osama Bin Laden

Author: Peter L. Bergen

Narrator: Peter L. Bergen

Abridged: 4 hr 19 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 11/01/2001

Synopsis

On September 11, 2001, the world changed forever as more than three thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil. The attack was masterminded by Osama bin Laden and his Jihad group -- an organization that CNN's terrorism analyst Peter Bergen calls Holy War, Inc. One of the few Western journalists to have interviewed bin Laden face-to-face, Bergen has produced the definitive book on the global Jihadist network, revealing:

How bin Laden lives, travels, and communicates with his "cells."
How his role in the crushing defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan made him a hero to Muslims all over the world.
How the bombings of the American embassies in Africa and the USS Cole in Yemen were planned and executed.
What we can expect from Islamic extremists in the future.

Above all, Peter Bergen helps us to see bin Laden's organization in a radically new light: as a corporation that has exploited modern technology and weaponry in the service of global terrorism and the destruction of the West.
Both author and publisher will donate a portion of the proceeds from this book to the International Committee of the Red Cross.

About Peter L. Bergen

Peter Bergen is the author or editor of nine books, including three New York Times bestsellers and four Washington Post best nonfiction books of the year. A Vice President at New America, Bergen is a professor at Arizona State University and a national security analyst for CNN. He has testified before congressional committees eighteen times about national security issues and has held teaching positions at Harvard and Johns Hopkins University.

Reviews

Goodreads review by La pointe de la sauce on March 18, 2010

'Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God.' This book certainly dispels some of the myths surrounding Osama Bin Laden propogated by the media. He was never trained or directly funded by the CIA and was never a CIA agent. Nonetheless the CIA played a crucial part in fu......more

Goodreads review by Michalea on January 15, 2009

What does Osama want? Not us, for sure. And no surprise, neither do the Saudi's. A non-hysterical approach to radical Islam. It reminded me of The World is Flat.......more

Goodreads review by Stephen on January 18, 2022

I would have given this three stars, but the afterword which was the concluding chapter seeking to bring the book together was awful, containing a lot of inaccuracies and predictions which turned out to be completely wrong. Part of the problem was the time span of the book rushing it out a year after......more

Goodreads review by Dennis Littrell on July 12, 2019

Readable journalistic overview If you don't know the difference between al-Qaeda and the Taliban (and before September 11 '01, I sure did not) or if you're a little fuzzy about where Yemen is in relation to Afghanistan, this an excellent book. Peter Bergen is CNN's terrorism analyst and an experience......more

Goodreads review by Alex on July 04, 2023

911 was the seminal event that touched off what I call the Age of Fear (the first of a three part trilogy that I plan on writing). "Holy War Inc." is the kind of book you write that seems a labor of love whilst writing but turn out to be shaped by the winds of destiny when complete. Of course I am r......more

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