Letter of shaykh ul islaam abdul aziz bin baaz to osama. Following are excerpts from an interview with alquds alarabi editorinchief abd albari atwan, which aired on bbc arabic tv and was posted on the internet on february 16, 20. Osama bin laden was killed in a us assault on his pakistani compound on monday, then quickly buried at sea, in a dramatic end to the long manhunt for the. Join facebook to connect with abdel bari atwan and others you may know. He was the editorinchief of the londonbased panarab newspaper al quds al arabi from the founding of the paper in 1989 until july 20. After promising financial aid to the sudanese government to spend on. Find the best way to get in touch with abdelbari by joining muck rack. With branches in strategic hotspots from yemen and somalia to north africa and an increasing influence among home grown jihadis in the west, journalist and alqaida expert abdel bari atwan investigates how the organisation has survived all attempts to destroy it. In this novel, the writer describes the life and achievements of tariq bin ziyad. Beware of politicians and their lies, says palestinian author. He is a frequent guest on radio and television, often appearing on the bbcs dateline london. Tweets that mention letter of shaykh ul islaam abdul aziz bin baaz to osama bin laden al khariji pdf ahlehadith says. Atwan is one of the foremost experts on al qaida, having interviewed osama bin laden twice in the 1990s and cultivated uniquely wellplaced sources within the movement.
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Osama bin laden s fifth wife, for example, was a young yemeni woman from taiz. Following are excerpts from an interview with abd albari atwan, editorinchief of the londonbased alquds alarabi. The only westernbased journalist to have spent time with osama bin laden, atwan. The former editorinchief of the londonbased daily alquds alarabi for twentyfive years, he now edits the rai alyoum news website, the arab worlds first huffington poststyle outlet. Abdel bari atwan abdel bari atwan was born in gaza, palestine and has lived in london since 1979. He conquered spain in the umayyad caliphate and established a stable government continued for hundreds of years. My weekend with osama bin laden having borne arms against the russians in afghanistan for 10 years, we think our battle with the americans will. Perspectives on terrorism, volume 7, issue 3 20 the web site.
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The martyrdom rather than capture of its chief may fuel more radical action from a newly unified alqaida. At a tuesday briefing at cia headquarters, counterterrorism officials released 1. Abdel bari atwan, the editorinchief of the londonbased online newspaper rai alyoum, wrote in an article published on wednesday that the return of iranian pilgrims to hajj this year was the. View the profiles of people named abdel bari atwan. Abdel bari atwan is the editorin chief of the londonbased panarab newspaper alquds alarabi. Osama bin laden is dead but alqaida remains the cias number one threat. One of the newlyavailable files is a handwritten, 228page journal kept by osama bin laden himself. A fearless examination of the terrorist network after the death of its longtime leader by one of. This portrait of osama bin laden fits perfectly with the image that al. To what extent was western intelligence at fault in failing to. Abdel bari atwan is the editor of alquds alarabi newspaper, and he interviewed bin laden in november 1996, three months after bin laden issued a fatwa declaring war on america.
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Bin laden journal reveals he was shaped by the muslim. Atwan interviewed osama bin laden in the late 1990s and has cultivated uniquely wellplaced sources from within the various branches of alqa ida over the last fifteen years. You are the only arab journalist who interviewed bin laden. Now he turns those sharp analytical skills to what the future holds for al qaeda and its affiliated groups in the middle east as some of the early promise of the arab spring begins to sour. Abdel bari atwan is the editorinchief of rai alyoum, an arab world digital news and opinion.
Catastrophic if it is authentic reaction from alqaeda and its sympathisers. After bin laden the arab spring and alqaida alqaida in the arabian peninsula somalias alshabaab the taliban alqaida nexus. How osama bin ladens death will affect al qaeda in yemen. Abdel bari atwan is a palestinian writer and journalist. Bin laden allowed abdel bari atwan editorinchief of the londonbased. Cia releases new documents seized in 2011 bin laden raid. This channel was generated automatically by youtube s video. The american public, as well as the entire world, received osama bin ladens death with more of relief than happiness. The bin laden papers release the captured files on al qaedas secret deals with iran. The chief in editor of raialyoum independent newspaper 20 to date he has been the editor of londonbased alquds alarabi, an independent, panarab daily newspaper since 1989. Source document contributed to documentcloud by mohammed haddad al jazeera english. Read osama bin ladens handwritten journal fdds long. Bin ladens former bodyguard delivers a breathtaking account tele et vous 15 september 2011an intriguing glimpse of life inside the alqaida chiefs lair sunday times 19 april 2010. Read download growing up bin laden pdf pdf download.
On wednesday, the central intelligence agency released nearly half a million files recovered from the 2011 raid that led to the killing of osama bin laden in his compound in abbottabad, pakistan. Bin laden was killed by us special forces in a raid in abbottabad, pakistan, in may 2011. Aslam rahi ma is the author of the book tariq bin ziyad novel pdf. The franchised terrorism of alqaeda after osama bin laden. Abdel bari atwan is the editor of the panarab newspaper al quds al arabi.
The cia has released hundreds of thousands of documents, images, and computer files recovered during the may 2011 raid on osama bin ladens compound in abbottabad, pakistan. Tariq bin ziyad novel by aslam rahi ma pdf the library pk. Abdel bari atwan is one of the worlds most wellknown palestinian journalists his editorials are influential and widelyread and his appearances on many news stations in both arabic and english have gained him a large following over the years. Abdel bari atwan author of the new book, the islamic state. After his graduation, he started work as a journalist, initially with the al balaagh newspaper in libya, then with. Request an exam or desk copy recommend to your library pdf rightslink. Osama bin laden grew up in the boom town of jeddah, saudi arabia a town his. Abdel bari atwan was an editorinchief for the alquds alarabi with two videos in the cspan video library. Abdel bari atwan fortune for alqaeda in the land of two rivers iraq, when tribal leaders were persuaded to turn against the jihadists. Palestinian journalist abdel bari atwan describes us president barack obama as an uncle tom an epithet derived from harriet beecher stowes 1852 novel, uncle toms cabin.
Bin laden, who was in hiding in pakistan at the time, attempted to rein in the. Yet since the 911 attacks on the united states, the organization has evolved into a much more complex and farflung entity, even as american military strikes have killed its most identifiable spokesmen and leaders. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading after bin laden. He is the author of the secret history of al qaida, and a country of.
An earlier version of this story incorrectly stated that nasser albahri was a. Abdel bari atwan is editorinchief of londonbased arabic newspaper alquds alarabi. Kasia interviewing abdelbari atwan, editor of alquds alarabi on bbc world who had spent three days with osama bin laden in 1996. The question is not whether israel and iran will come to blows, but when, where and how by abdel bari atwan the common theme in the statements being made these days by iranian and israeli leaders is that their fingers are on the trigger, amid mounting predictions of an imminent outbreak of war between the two sides whether a limited one in syria or an allout war on four fronts. Letter from beirut abdel bari atwan visitors to lebanon these days cannot help but be affected by the general sense of fear and anxiety that permeates the streets.
Algeria, morocco, tunisia and the sahel alqaida in the. In 1996, abdel bari atwan interviewed osama bin laden. In beirut, where people hardly ever agree on anything, worries about security are the main topic of conversation in cafes. Bin ladens messages were mostly composed on computers, then smuggled out on small disks or thumb drives by couriers, who would then copy the contents into e. He was the editorinchief at the londonbased daily alquds alarabi for twentyfive years and now edits the rai alyoum news website the arab worlds first huffington poststyle outlet. The cia declassified a new tranche of documents seized during the 2011 raid on osama bin ladens compound. Bin ladens death, in other words while symbolically significant may mean little for alqaedas capabilities. He is a longtime journalist who served as editorinchief of the londonbased daily alquds alarabi for 25 years.
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