Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden

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Overview

Despite the saturation of global media coverage, Osama bin Laden's own writings have been curiously absent from analysis of the "war on terror." Over the last ten years, bin Laden has issued a series of carefully tailored public statements, from interviews with Western and Arabic journalists to faxes and video recordings. These texts supply evidence crucial to an understanding of the bizarre mix of Quranic scholarship, CIA training, punctual interventions in Gulf politics and messianic anti-imperialism that has formed the programmatic core of Al Qaeda.

In bringing together the various statements issued under bin Laden's name since 1994, this volume forms...

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Overview

Despite the saturation of global media coverage, Osama bin Laden's own writings have been curiously absent from analysis of the "war on terror." Over the last ten years, bin Laden has issued a series of carefully tailored public statements, from interviews with Western and Arabic journalists to faxes and video recordings. These texts supply evidence crucial to an understanding of the bizarre mix of Quranic scholarship, CIA training, punctual interventions in Gulf politics and messianic anti-imperialism that has formed the programmatic core of Al Qaeda.

In bringing together the various statements issued under bin Laden's name since 1994, this volume forms part of a growing discourse that seeks to demythologize the terrorist network. Newly translated from the Arabic, annotated with a critical introduction by Islamic scholar Bruce Lawrence, this collection places the statements in their religious, historical and political context. It shows how bin Laden's views draw on and differ from other strands of radical Islamic thought; it also demonstrates how his arguments vary in degrees of consistency, and how his evasions concerning the true nature and extent of his own group, and over his own role in terrorist attacks, have contributed to the perpetuation of his personal mythology.

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Noah Feldman
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. In the end, the most constructive thing one can do with a book like this one is to use it against itself, as a tool in the fight against terrorism.
— THe New York Times
Foreign Affairs
Following Lawrence's succinct introduction, this short book presents translations of 24 different statements by Osama bin Laden (mainly speeches, but also one long interview), arranged chronologically from December 1994 to December 2004. Some are hardly more than a page, others longer. The provenance and context of each statement are given in a short introductory statement, and copious footnotes identify Koranic and hadith citations, persons past or present mentioned, and other subjects that might need identification. The translations provide an idiomatically smooth English text even while preserving the distinctive tenor of the Arabic (for four of the statements the Arabic original could not be recovered). This is a fine and faithful rendition of the mind of bin Laden as set out in his own words.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781844670451
  • Publisher: Verso
  • Publication date: 11/5/2005
  • Edition description: ANN
  • Pages: 292
  • Sales rank: 489,680
  • Product dimensions: 6.30 (w) x 8.00 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Osama bin Laden is a member of the prominent Saudi bin Laden family and the founding leader of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda.

Bruce Lawrence is the Nancy and Jeffrey Marcus Humanities Professor of Religion at Duke University. He is the author of New Faiths, Old Fears: Muslims and Other Asian Immigrants in American Religious Life, Shattering the Myth, and Defenders of God: The Fundamentalist Revolt Against the Modern Age.

Table of Contents

I From Sudan 1994-1995
1 The betrayal of Palestine 3
2 The invasion of Arabia 15
II In Khurasan 1996-1998
3 Declaration of Jihad 23
4 The Saudi regime 31
5 From Somalia to Afghanistan 44
6 The world Islamic front 58
III Towards 9/11 1998-2001
7 A Muslim bomb 65
8 Under Mullah Omar 95
9 To our brothers in Pakistan 100
10 The winds of faith 103
11 Terror for terror 106
IV War in Afghanistan 2001-2002
12 Crusader wars 133
13 The example of Vietnam 139
14 Nineteen students 145
15 To the people of Afghanistan 158
16 To the Americans 160
17 To the allies of America 173
V War in Iraq 2003-2004
18 To the people of Iraq 179
19 Among a band of knights 186
20 Quagmires of the Tigris and Euphrates 207
21 Resist the new Rome 212
22 To the peoples of Europe 233
23 The towers of Lebanon 237
24 Depose the tyrants 245

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