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Wrapping up my August reads with this movingly written book, The Rise and Fall of Osama Bin Laden by Peter Bergen. This is a great follow up to Jean Sasson‘s opus Growing Up Bin Laden. Mr. Bergen has produced a narrative that is both deftly constructed and meticulously researched. With the recent withdrawal of US forces in Afghanistan, the war on terror narrative is 👇
thevagabondlawyer never complete without Osama Bin Laden and any offshoot jihadists movement around the world can well be traced back to him and Al-Qaeda. Here, Mr. Bergen recounts the rise of the man who perpetrated unimaginable damage and his eventual downfall. From Saudi Arabia, to Sudan, to Afghanistan and Pakistan, this book is gut-wrenching but also genuinely riveting. 😊👏 3y
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