The Osama Bin Laden I know Auhtor Peter L. Bergen

The American journalist Peter L. Bergen brings to us a portrait built from his own interviews with about fifty people that have known Osama bin Laden personally at various stages of his life. The author is a terrorism analyst from CNN, and has written several books on terrorism.
Bergen conducted the first television interview with Osama bin Laden in 1997, after Bin Laden had declared a jihad (holy war) against the United States of America. The questions were submitted in advance and it was not allowed to ask follow up questions. This interview lasted over an hour and all the details of the interview can be seen in this book.
The book is written in a chronological way and its contents are almost didactic. The author fills up the book with many support materials as a list of names and description of each person that was interviewed by him, map of the region, time line of Osama bin Laden, documents from al Queda and from bin Laden as appendix.
The author means to describe the life of Osama bin Laden in order to understand how he became the commander of the number-one terrorist organization in the world. One deep religious man with an endless resources found himself a duty to help his people against the Soviet Union's invasion on Afghanistan in nineteen-eighties. In this war, all the muslins were called to fight against Soviet Union on Afghani soil or by giving donations to the jihad movement. It was, for Osama bin Laden, a holy war, between the good and evil, and about the future of the Muslin nations. This war lasted for almost ten years and ended with the withdraw of the USSR army from Afghanistan. The jihad movement was known in the all Muslin countries and after the success defending Afghanistan they started be seen with respect and some people might see then as leaders in Muslin matters as well, including the Palestine problem.
The book shows through interviews all the transformations of actions, ideals and politics from the authorities in the Muslin World, how the jihad became a terrorist group fighting for the Muslin cause and taking actions in the Palestine and Israel matters. The author explains how Osama had escaped from Tora-Bora, when the American troops came after him, and how he managed to draw thousands of followers. Bergen put all together interviews and documents about the involved people in the terrorist attacks of al Quaeda through the years and what they think, how they plot and what its vision is.