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The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight de Adrian Levy

The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight

Autor Adrian Levy, Catherine Scott-Clark
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2020

Această monografie de investigație jurnalistică reprezintă o incursiune fără precedent în intimitatea celei mai căutate figuri a secolului XXI. Găsim în această carte nu doar o cronică a vânătorii de oameni, ci povestea umană, adesea scandaloasă, a anturajului lui Osama bin Laden în deceniul de după 11 septembrie. Adrian Levy și Catherine Scott-Clark reușesc să pătrundă dincolo de barierele de securitate, oferind perspective directe de la soțiile și copiii liderului Al Qaeda, oameni care au trăit în umbra paranoiei și a fugii constante.

Suntem de părere că valoarea acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea de a demonta mituri politice; autorii relevă cum oportunități clare de capturare au fost ignorate de factorii de decizie de la Washington. The Exile completează perspectiva oferită de The Bin Laden Papers de Nelly Lahoud, adăugând contextul geopolitic extern și jocurile de culise ale serviciilor de informații pakistaneze, acolo unde Lahoud s-a concentrat strict pe documentele interne ale organizației. De asemenea, dacă Manhunt de Peter L Bergen se concentrează pe mecanismul militar al capturării, The Exile oferă „factorul uman” și viața cotidiană din ascunzători.

Lucrarea se înscrie în linia riguroasă a cercetărilor anterioare ale autorilor, precum The Siege, păstrând același ritm alert de reportaj de teren. Față de The Forever Prisoner, unde Levy investiga programele de tortură, aici accentul cade pe dinamica internă a unei familii aflate în război cu lumea. Este o lectură densă, susținută de un insert color de 16 pagini, care transformă datele brute de spionaj într-o narațiune istorică esențială pentru înțelegerea rădăcinilor terorismului modern.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781635576016
ISBN-10: 1635576016
Pagini: 640
Dimensiuni: 232 x 156 x 46 mm
Greutate: 0.82 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte cititorilor pasionați de istorie contemporană și geopolitică care doresc să înțeleagă ce s-a întâmplat cu adevărat în deceniul de „tăcere” dintre 9/11 și moartea lui bin Laden. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care s-a format ISIS și a eșecurilor serviciilor de informații, totul într-un format de 640 de pagini documentate riguros de jurnaliști premiați internațional.

Despre autor

Adrian Levy este un renumit corespondent străin și jurnalist de investigație, cunoscut pentru colaborările sale de lungă durată cu Catherine Scott-Clark. Împreună au semnat lucrări de referință precum The Siege și The Meadow, fiind distinși cu titlul de Jurnaliștii Britanici ai Anului în 2009. Experiența sa de peste 16 ani la The Guardian și Sunday Times se reflectă în profunzimea documentării și în accesul la surse dificil de contactat din Asia de Sud, transformându-l într-o voce autoritară în analiza conflictelor și a securității globale.

Notă biografică

Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy are acclaimed investigative journalists, and the authors of several books, most recently The Siege: 58 Hours Inside the Taj Hotel. Their other books are The Meadow: Kashmir 1995-Where the Terror Began, Nuclear Deception: The Dangerous Relationship Between the United States and Pakistan, The Amber Room: The Fate of the World's Greatest Lost Treasure, and The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade. For sixteen years they worked as foreign correspondents and investigative reporters for the Sunday Times and the Guardian. In 2009 the One World Trust named them British Journalists of the Year, and they won Foreign Correspondents of the Year in 2004. They co-produce documentaries that have been nominated at the Amnesty International Media Awards and longlisted at the BAFTAs. They live in London.

Descriere scurtă

Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider's story of Osama bin Laden's retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads. The Exile tells the extraordinary inside story of that decade through the eyes of those who witnessed it: bin Laden's four wives and many children, his deputies and military strategists, his spiritual advisor, the CIA, Pakistan's ISI, and many others who have never before told their stories.Investigative journalists Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy gained unique access to Osama bin Laden's inner circle, and they recount the flight of Al Qaeda's forces and bin Laden's innocent family members, the gradual formation of ISIS by bin Laden's lieutenants, and bin Laden's rising paranoia and eroding control over his organization. They also reveal that the Bush White House knew the whereabouts of bin Laden's family and Al Qaeda's military and religious leaders, but rejected opportunities to capture them, pursuing war in the Persian Gulf instead, and offer insights into how Al Qaeda will attempt to regenerate itself in the coming years.While we think we know what happened in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011, we know little about the wilderness years that led to that shocking event. As authoritative in its scope and detail as it is propuslively readable, The Exile is a landmark work of investigation and reporting.

Recenzii

[Scott-Clark and Levy] set out to do what few had done before in the West: to see the September 2001 terror attacks and their aftermath from the other side. They traveled widely in the region, listened intently, interviewed aggressively, read newly released accounts and government documents deeply (and wrote lengthily). The result is a breathtaking tale.
Remarkable . . . They have produced the best account yet of what happened to al-Qaida after 9/11: it is an astonishingly good piece of work.
This book is a tour de force and the first detailed account told by al-Qaeda members themselves, making good use of the diaries of Abu Zubaydah, the captured al-Qaeda facilitator, as well as extensive interviews with one of its religious thinkers . . . It tells us lots of things we knew, but in far more detail.
[Scott-Clark and Levy's] latest, The Exile: The Flight of Osama bin Laden, is perhaps their best yet . . . The book fills in many important gaps in our knowledge of al-Qaida . . . a gripping inside account.
Remarkable . . . The book's fascinating perspective exposes layers of human complexity in individuals who are often shrouded by intrigue, and brings nuance to the general Western understanding of jihadi groups. This extensively researched, eminently readable work greatly enhances public knowledge of these dramatic years and will be welcomed by specialists and general readers alike.
A tour de force of investigative research.
[A] piece of outstanding journalistic bravery . . . the book has an impact and immediacy far stronger than much of the other literature on the subject.
What struck me more than anything else about The Exile is the phenomenal degree of intimacy that the co-authors Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy have achieved with bin Laden himself . . . By tracking down the myriad bin Laden family members, associates and al-Qaeda members that inhabit this huge tour-de-force of a read, the authors have brought the personality of bin Laden into a sharper focus than could ever have been imagined. The detail mustered is little short of incredible, and evidently the result of forensic research only the best of investigative journalists could dig out . . . It's this feel of being there that makes The Exile such an exceptional account of those lost years when bin Laden and his family went to ground . . . Big it might be, but it is also a page-turner. There have been many books before on bin Laden and al-Qaeda, but this is one of the best. This is bin Laden the man. Above all it's a unique glimpse into darkest recesses of those caves in Tora Bora and the thinking of those that inhabited them while hiding from the world.
[A] magnificent telling . . . The Exile is a truly impressive feat of journalism, both the closest we're ever likely to come to a day-by-day account of Bin Laden's life in those years and also an intensely gripping reading experience
An astonishing work of scholarship and journalism.
The Exile is a remarkable achievement. Through years of research, investigative work, and interviews, the authors have artfully woven together a gripping account that reads like a thriller -- Al-Qaeda's story from their perspective, with all the complexities and nuances of a deeply disturbing chapter of our history, that continues to this day. The Exile is the shocking story behind the story. A must read.
Based on meticulous and unique research, this riveting account of Osama bin Laden's last decade is the most important and revealing book about the al Qaeda leadership in years. The role of the Iranian and Pakistani 'deep states' in hiding bin Laden and his family is fascinating and disturbing.
The most definitive account available of bin Laden's increasingly fraught existence in an over-crowded, ramshackle villa just a stone's throw from Pakistan's version of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point . . . No other publicly available source comes as close to The Exile in presenting this familiar story . . . The Exile is destined to become a classic.
The Exile is a tour de force of investigative journalism. Scott-Clark and Levy focus on the crucial but much ignored 'human factor' in Islamic extremism with great effect. Packed with new details and revelations, their astonishingly intimate account of the inner workings of Al Qaeda, and of the battle to counter its murderous campaign, will be a hugely valuable resource for specialists and general readers alike for years to come.

Caracteristici

It is a book that looks at the global picture, moving from Afghanistan to Pakistan, from Tehran to the volatile Islamist strong-holds of fractious southern Yemen, and on to Washington and London.

Descriere

Descriere de la o altă ediție sau format:
The extraordinary inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in the years after 9/11.

Following the attacks on the Twin Towers, Osama bin Laden, the most wanted man in the world, eluded intelligence services and Special Forces units for almost a decade. Using remarkable, first-person testimony from bin Laden's family and closest aides, The Exile chronicles this astonishing tale of evasion, collusion and isolation.

In intimate detail, The Exile reveals not only the frantic attack on Afghanistan by the United States in their hunt for bin Laden but also how and why, when they found his family soon after, the Bush administration rejected the chance to seize them. It charts the formation of ISIS, and uncovers the wasted opportunity to kill its Al Qaeda-sponsored founder; it explores the development of the CIA's torture programme; it details Iran's secret shelter for bin Laden's family and Al Qaeda's military council; and it captures the power struggles, paranoia and claustrophobia within the Abbottabad house prior to the raid.

A landmark work of investigation and reportage, The Exile is as authoritative as it is compelling, and essential reading for anyone concerned with history, security and future relations with the Islamic world.