Volume 53, Number 4 · March 9, 2006
Their Master's Voice
By Max Rodenbeck
Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden
edited and with an introductionby Bruce Lawrence, translated from the Arabic by James Howarth
Verso, 292 pp., $16.95 (paper)
The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of al Qaeda's Leader
by Peter L. Bergen
Free Press, 444 pp., $26.00
When Osama bin Laden speaks, people listen. They tend, however, to hear different things. Take the coverage of his latest voice-from-the-mountain tape, released in mid-January. The New York Times and The Washington Post both headlined with the words 'Bin Laden Warns of Attacks.' The equivalent two highbrow Arabic-language newspapers, al-Hayat and al-Sharq al-Awsat, led instead with the news that the al-Qaeda leader had offered a truce.
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