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Article: Bin Laden: the fanatics' fanatic Despite changing events, this is a useful guide to the world's most wanted man, says Christopher Andrew
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- The Sunday Telegraph London
- Article date:
- November 18, 2001
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Holy War, Inc: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden
by Peter Bergen
Weidenfeld & Nicolson, pounds 18.99, 292 pp
pounds 15.99 ( pounds 1.99 p&p) 0870 155 7222
ONLY RARELY does an author contradict his own publisher's hype as
directly as Peter Bergen in his preface to Holy War, Inc. The
dustjacket makes the impossible claim that this is "the complete
story of bin Laden's life, career and influence". Peter Bergen,
however, acknowledges that the book was not originally intended for
publication until next summer.
When he delivered the manuscript to his publisher last August, he
"looked forward to a civilised period of editing before its
publication". Instead the volume was prepared for ...