The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight

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

From September 11, 2001 to May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden refrained from intelligence services and products and special forces units, drones and hunter killer squads. The Exile tells the unusual inside story of that decade through the eyes of those who witnessed it: bin Laden’s four wives and lots of children, his deputies and military strategists, his spiritual advisor, the CIA, Pakistan’s ISI, and lots of others who have never before told their stories.

Investigative journalists Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy gained unique get entry to to Osama bin Laden’s inner circle, and they recount the flight of Al Qaeda’s forces and bin Laden’s innocent members of the family, the gradual formation of ISIS by bin Laden’s lieutenants, and bin Laden’s rising paranoia and eroding regulate over his organization. They also reveal that the Bush White House knew the whereabouts of bin Laden’s circle of relatives and Al Qaeda’s military and non secular leaders, but rejected opportunities to capture them, pursuing war in the Persian Gulf as an alternative, 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.

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