Looking for Bin-Laden, not in caves.
Researchers looks into collections of tapes hoping to get deeper insights of Bin-Laden. sounds not too promising. read on here
“SACRAMENTO, Calif. _ For five years, a University of California, Davis, researcher has been replaying hundreds of hours of audiocassettes that, he says, yield deeper _ and more complex _ insights into the intellectual development of Osama bin Laden.
A collection of 1,500 audiocassettes was carted away from bin Laden’s compound in Kandahar, Afghanistan, in 2001 and provides a glimpse into bin Laden’s rise leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
Certainly, few would dare humanize the man the United States calls its most wanted, who seven years after the country’s deadliest terrorist attacks is still being sought dead or alive.
Seven years after the attacks, the most brazen ever carried out anywhere in the world, bin Laden still looms large on the American psyche, its politics and public life.
Nearly 3,000 people died in attacks when four hijacked U.S. jetliners crashed into New York’s World Trade Center, the Pentagon and into a rural field in Pennsylvania.
In the years since, the Osama bin Laden who Americans have come to know and demonize has arrived in video dispatches _ monologues excoriating the United States and filled with promises of further violence on American soil.
The audio tapes, some dating back to the 1960s, “show his evolution from a relatively unpolished Muslim reformer, orator and jihad recruiter to his current person,” said Flagg Miller, an assistant professor of religious studies at UC Davis and the first academic researcher to study the tapes.
“It makes it difficult to separate yourself and realize that this is what led to such horrific things as the 9/11 attack,” Miller said.” -
ok stop, are you serious? it is not that difficult to realize that Bin laden wants nothing but destruction towards the US and its citizens, why are they so called experts does not look into Bin Laden’s and other extremists core beliefs? I mean here one of the hint .
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“You get a sense from these tapes of a man who’s seeking. He’s a seeker. He hasn’t figured it all out. We only have the faintest outlines of the logic,” Miller said.
Miller said that bin Laden took many years to hone his message and political platform. At times, he has referred to non-Muslims as “dogs,” but has also urged followers to engage civilly with Western governments by launching letter-writing campaigns to protest Israel’s policies toward Palestinians, most of them Muslim.”
well he’s all not that violent after all.. what a load of ‘you know what’. Letter-writing campaigns? I supposed it was just some love notes.
