Bergen’s anthology brings together an array of helpful source material, from interviews given by Bin Laden (including one with the author) to statements and anecdotes recounted by his allies and associates.
The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, by Lawrence Wright (Knopf, 2007)
This widely praised book by Wright, like Coll a staff writer at ‘The New Yorker’, takes a wide-angle view of the spread of Islamic fundamentalism, and is not only analytically astute but exhaustively researched—more than 500 interviewees are listed in the notes.
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