THE
OSAMA
BIN
LADEN
I
KNOW
BY
PETER
L.
BERGEN
The
Osama
bin
Laden
I
Know
is
an
unprecedented
oral
history
of
Osama
bin
Laden's
rise
to
revered
leader
of
al
Qaeda.
Peter
Bergen
takes
the
reader
onto
the
battlefields
of
Afghanistan
as
bin
Laden
goes
from
a
shy,
quiet
teen
to
a
leader;
he
brings
you
into
Osama's
intimate
family
life
as
he
lives
under
the
radar
in
Sudan,
then
Afghanistan;
he
puts
you
right
in
the
room
for
al
Qaeda's
very
first
meeting;
and
he
uses
eyewitness
accounts
to
relate
what
bin
Laden
said,
and
thought
on
9/11
as
he
watched
the
twin
towers
fall.
Derived
from
Bergen's
interviews
with
more
than
50
people
who
know
bin
Laden
personally,
from
his
high
school
teacher
to
an
early
al
Qaeda
member
who
later
became
a
US
informant,
The
Osama
bin
Laden
I
Know
recounts
individual
experiences
with
the
man
who
has
declared
the
US,
and
its
allies,
his
greatest
enemies.
BOOK
IS
IN
GREAT
CONDITION