Summary

Peter Bergen, conducted the first TV interview with Osama bin Laden, after the US government had accused him of running terrorist training camps in Afghanistan and Sudan. In August 1996 bin Laden issued his first call to Muslims to attack US targets. Since then his name has been linked to every major anti-American terrorist act by Muslims. This book reveals the Islamist militant's unsuspected previous links with the West, and why he has proved such a force throughout the Muslim world.