The Bin Laden Papers

The Bin Laden Papers is a work of immense, exciting scholarship, and it sparkles with new insights about bin Laden and his al-Qaeda network. Crisply written by Nelly Lahoud, it is one of the most important histories of the war on terror. -Peter Bergen, author of The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden A masterful analysis and riveting story. As though finally cleaning a window obscured by years of grime, Nelly Lahoud's The Bin Laden Papers clarifies a man and his movement that confused and confounded much of the world for decades. -General (ret.) Stanley McChrystal, former Commander of United States Forces Afghanistan Terrorist expert Nelly Lahoud reveals the hidden history of Al Qaeda in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. The Bin Laden Papers paints a portrait of an ambitious and dedicated terrorist leader who is often out of touch with reality and unable to control the movement he helped spawn. -Daniel Byman, author of Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad Nelly Lahoud's consummate analysis of 6,000 al-Qaeda documents is a prodigious and indispensable achievement. Deploying clinical understanding of political, religious, and family contexts, she provides a riveting inside account, the fullest likely ever to emerge, of the thoughts and motivations of a man and movement that have so malignly impacted our era. -James Piscatori, co-author of Islam Beyond Borders: The Umma in World Politics