Messages to the World

The Statements of Osama Bin Laden

by Osama Bin Laden

The independent publisher Verso has assembled and translated into English all the speeches, interviews, faxes, and transcripts of video recordings attributed to Osama bin Laden since 1994, along with scholarly commentary by Bruce Lawrence. These "messages to the world" are both revealing--of the man and his politics--and obscuring, and Lawrence puts bin Laden's words helpfully into their historical and cultural context. Their availability in one volume provides the opportunity for scholars and lay people to read the complete and uncorrupted texts, and to make their own judgments about the man.

Available editions of Messages to the World

	9781844670451, Paperback, Verso Books, 2005 $6.96 (Fine) Other copies of 9781844670451

Publisher Notes

Draws on public statements written by the Al Qaeda terrorist organization head over the course of the past decade, placing his writings in a religious, historical, and political context that demonstrates how bin Laden's views differ from other strands of radical Islamic thought, how he has contributed to his own mythology, and how he has shaped the development of Al Qaeda.

Media Reviews

"The real contribution of this book is what it tells us about bin Laden's own development. Beginning as a trenchant critic of the Saudi government, he becomes an advocate of global religious war and the intentional killing of civilians, including women and children....Putting bin Laden's words on paper helps show him for what he is--a Muslim out of the mainstream, distorting the faith to justify murder."

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