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Article: Loveless country.(The Veiled Kingdom)(Book Review)
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- Quadrant
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- November 1, 2004
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The Veiled Kingdom, by Carmen bin Ladin; Virago, 2004, $29.95.
ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin looked, horror-struck, at the terrifying images screening on her television and knew at once who had done it--her brother-in-law, Osama. Over the days that followed, her own reactions and those of her bewildered and frightened daughters, who shared the surname of the world's most reviled man, inspired her to start writing this book, which is an exploration of her own contact with the infamous family. It is an extraordinary glimpse into the stultifying, depressing world of the ultra-Wahhabi family of the globe's most wanted terrorist.
It is also a simply ...