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The exile, :, the stunning inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in flight, Adrian Levy, Catherine Scott-Clark

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The exile

Adrian Levy, Catherine Scott-Clark

:the stunning inside story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in flight

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

One."Shit. I think we bit off more than we could chew" -- Two."Terrorism is a duty and assassination is a Sunnah" -- Three."These Arabs ... they have killed Afghans. They have trained their guns on Afghan lives ... We want them out" -- Four."Poor ones, this is not how revenge is, or will be" -- Five."The banging was so strong that I felt at some point that my skull was in pieces" -- Six."If you bid us plunge into the ocean, we would follow you" -- Seven."The reprisals of the mujahideen shall come like lightning bolts" -- Eight."We will get you, CIA team, inshallah, we will bring you down" -- Nine."I'm hack with the people I was with before" -- Ten."We go to a house, we fuck with some people, and we leave. This is just a longer flight" -- Eleven."What really happened doesn't matter if there is an official story behind it that 99.999% of the world would believe Twelve."It is going to be worse when my father dies. The world is going to be very, very nasty ... it will be a disaster" -- Thirteen."It will be just the end of the beginning rather than the beginning of the end"