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The Exile

Adrian Levy, Catherine Scott-Clark
BRAND NEW, PAPERBACK
Adrian Levy, Catherine Scott-Clark
BRAND NEW, PAPERBACK

RM30.00

Documents The Inside Story Of Al Qaeda & Its Post-September 11 Activities

ISBN 9781620409848
Book Condition BRAND NEW
Format PAPERBACK
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publication Date 23/05/2017
Pages 640
Weight 1.17 kg
Dimension 23.9 × 15.7 × 5.1 cm
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This International / New York Times / The Guardian Bestseller in Hardcover edition is a bran-new book and still wrapped with new book plastic seal. The original new book is sold at usual price RM132.30. Now here Only at RM30.

Startling and scandalous, this is an intimate insider’s story of Osama bin Laden’s retinue in the ten years after 9/11, a family in flight and at war.

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.


From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden evaded intelligence services and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads.

The Exile tells the extraordinary inside story of that decade through the eyes of those who witnessed it: bin Laden’s four wives and many children, his deputies and military strategists, his spiritual advisor, the CIA, Pakistan’s ISI, and many others who have never before told their stories.

The Exile joins Osama bin Laden as he escapes into Pakistan in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, bringing to vivid life the years leading up to his death spent on the run and in exile.

Investigative journalists Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy gained unique access to Osama bin Laden’s inner circle, and they recount the flight of Al Qaeda’s forces and bin Laden’s innocent family members, the gradual formation of ISIS by bin Laden’s lieutenants, and bin Laden’s rising paranoia and eroding control over his organization.

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.

They also reveal that the Bush White House knew the whereabouts of bin Laden’s family and Al Qaeda’s military and religious leaders, but rejected opportunities to capture them, pursuing war in the Persian Gulf instead, and offer insights into how Al Qaeda will attempt to regenerate itself in the coming years.

While we think we know what happened in Abbottabad on May 2, 2011, we know little about the wilderness years that led to that shocking event.

As authoritative in its scope and detail as it is propuslively readable, The Exile is a landmark work of investigation and reporting.

It tells the human story, and illuminates the global political workings. It is a tale of evasion, collusion, betrayal and the deep pain of isolation.

Staying with a small group of characters throughout, The Exile moves through a series of dramatic set-pieces, from the shocking failure of the Battle of Tora Bora, one of the most significant losses in US strategic history, when, outgunned and outflanked, Osama still managed to give the world’s most accomplished trackers the slip, through his covert journey from safe-house to safe-house in Pakistan, to the years spent hiding in the military compound in Abottabad where he was eventually to be killed.

Using the contacts built up through years of research, including wives of key players such as Osama bin Laden and his mastermind, Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, the authors have gained extraordinary and intimate insight into Osama bin Laden and those closest to him. Meticulously researched, beautifully written, this is an enthralling and revelatory journey.

Chapter Eleven tells the story of the night bin Laden died, to a large extent from the perspective of his wives and family members.

They also weave in accounts from US soldiers participating in the raid, but this is a perspective we have been denied till now and I think it is an important one.

Indeed, the trauma faced by the children on that night (and throughout the years prior, for the most part unable to leave their home) is one of the understated but crucial themes that stand out from ‘The Exile’.

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.

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Review From Publisher Weekly

In this remarkable work of literary-style investigative journalism, Scott-Clark and Levy trace the story of Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda in the decade after the 9/11 attacks, from the perspective of the militants themselves.

The authors utilize their extraordinary access to al-Qaeda’s inner circle and many other key players to fracture the U.S. government’s near-monopoly of public information.

Combining countless interviews with declassified materials and secondary literature, they construct a riveting narrative of the terror group’s experiences, including the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan, al-Qaeda’s secrecy and evasion tactics, drone attacks, interpersonal drama, and the climactic raid on bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound.

Readers gain insight on the roles of Iranian and Pakistani intelligence services in shielding al-Qaeda militants, the inefficacy of torture, the counterproductive bluster of the Bush administration, and the role the Iraq invasion played in the growth of jihadi movements.

The book’s fascinating perspective exposes layers of human complexity in individuals who are often shrouded by intrigue, and brings nuance to the general Western understanding of jihadi groups.

This extensively researched, eminently readable work greatly enhances public knowledge of these dramatic years and will be welcomed by specialists and general readers alike.

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