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Scheuer, Michael.

Osama bin Laden / Michael Scheuer. - Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2011. - xi, 278 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-262) and index.

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.

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.

ISBN: 0199738661 (hbk. : acidfree paper) 9780199738663 (hbk. : acid-free paper) 9780199898398

LCCN: 2010021715

Subjects--Personal Names:
Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011.
Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011 --Political and social views.
Bin Laden, Osama, 1957-2011 --Psychology.

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Terrorists--Saudi Arabia--Biography.
Terrorism--Religious aspects--Islam.
Islamic fundamentalism--Political aspects.

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Islamic countries--Relations--Western countries.
Western countries--Relations--Islamic countries.

LC Class. No.: HV6430.B55 / S33 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 363.325092 B