Osama Bin Laden's Surprising Taste in Literature

The Atlantic ^ | 05/21/2015 | Adam Chandler

[SeekAndFind]

On Wednesday, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released what it called “a sizeable tranche of documents recovered during the raid on the compound used to hide Usama bin Ladin.” A sorted list of those materials appears in a slick web production on the ODNI’s website entitled “Bin Ladin’s Bookshelf.”

What Was Released

Among the materials made public were previously classified documents, non-classified documents, and a trove of English-language materials found at Bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound following his death in a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in 2011. That includes letters, public American government documents, religious sermons, scholarly books written in English, and several digital issues of Foreign Policy, in addition to maps, dictionaries, and a suicide-prevention guide (which the ODNI believes was for someone else in the house).

What It Reveals

As NBC News noted, the library offers titles “that indulged [bin Laden’s] interest in conspiracy theories about the United States” as well as books that were critical of American foreign policy. Offerings from MIT linguist Noam Chomsky, a book about the Illuminati, a conspiratorial and anti-Semitic tract about the global banking system, Bob Woodward’s Obama’s Wars, and an alternative history of September 11th were also logged.

[SeekAndFind]

well, lookie here, one of my favorite books -— The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy, also appeared on the list.

The book of all things, discusses how America would decline.

[smokingfrog]

Chomsky thinks Obama is a terrorist.

[molson209]

It’s just a DISTRACTION from Ramadi

[MortMan]

I don’t know why anyone thinks the list is “surprising”.

[ETL]

Obama was actually photographed with a copy of A Post-American World in his hand. This is not a photoshop.

BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE
FRIENDS WHO BOMBED THE PENTAGON
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From HumanEvents.com, April 29, 2008:
"By all accounts, he [Obama friend and associate, Bill Ayers] was a ferocious, violent, revolutionary Marxist in his halcyon days as a Weatherman leader. He and his Weatherman bombers were enamored of Ho Chi Minh, Che Guevara, Fidel Castro, Mao Tse-tung -- indeed, all the murderous heroes on the Left. Referring to the Weatherman members in August 1969, he said (according to the FBI): 'We’re revolutionary Communists.'

He got off on the group’s multiple explosions, too, and discusses them rather lovingly in his memoir.

Ideal Bombing Weather:
'Everything was absolutely ideal on the day I bombed the Pentagon,' he writes (although he concedes it was really a group effort). 'The sky was blue. The birds were singing. And the bastards were finally going to get what was coming to them.' (p. 256 in the 2003 edition.)

Article: Obama and His Weatherman Friends
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26243
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Pentagon attack, Sept 11, 2001
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BOTH OBAMA AND OSAMA HAVE/HAD
FRIENDS WHO WANTED TO BOMB FORT DIX

From David Horowitz's FrontPageMag.com/DiscoverTheNetworks.org:
March 6, 1970: "three members of the Weather Underground accidentally killed themselves in a Manhattan townhouse while attempting to build a powerful bomb they had intended to plant at a social dance in Fort Dix, New Jersey -- an event that was to be attended by U.S. Army soldiers. Hundreds of lives could have been lost had the plot been successfully executed."
http://www.discoverthenetworks.org/groupProfile.asp?grpid=6808

"The bomb was intended to be planted at a non-commissioned officer's dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
The bomb was packed with nails to inflict maximum casualties upon detonation."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weatherman_(organization)#Chronology_of_events
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2007 Fort Dix attack plot

A group of six radical Islamist[1] men, allegedly plotting to stage an attack on the Fort Dix military base in New Jersey, United States, were arrested by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 7, 2007. They were subsequently charged with planning an attack against U.S. soldiers. The alleged aim of the six men was said to be to "kill as many soldiers as possible".[2] Their trial began on October 20, 2008. [3]

Opening arguments were presented on October 20, 2008.
Assistant U.S. Attorney William Fitzpatrick said the defendants were inspired by jihad saying "Their motive was to defend Islam. Their inspiration was Al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Dix_plot

[SeekAndFind]

That book that Obama is holding in his hands — ar eyou sure it’s not photoshoped?

[woofie]

I have et to read what literature Presidente Obama reads ...Or does he just sit there thinking great thoughts

[oleus]

it's not photoshopped.

[ETL]

The photo is originally from the New York Times. Liberal, so-called “fact checking” sites try to explain the book away, saying such nonsense as the book is not about the decline of America as a world power, but rather the rise of everyone else. The same author wrote a book titled “Why Do They Hate Us?”.

ArtsBeat - NY Times:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/21/what-obama-is-reading/?_r=0

[RansomOttawa]

Obama was actually photographed with a copy of A Post-American World in his hand.

I hope no one ever draws a conclusion about my worldview just because they snapped a photo of me carrying certain books from my library.

[ETL]

Just can’t put 2 and 2 together, eh? This is OBAMA, a guy I hope most of here know by now is as friggin anti-American as they come.

[RansomOttawa]

Just can’t put 2 and 2 together, eh? This is OBAMA, a guy I hope most of here know by now is as friggin anti-American as they come.

And you came to this conclusion because he was carrying around a certain book?

[ETL]

Are you f’n serious???

[RansomOttawa]

Are you f’n serious???

Are you?

Humour me.

[ETL]

You actually don’t know, or understand, that Obama is a far left hate-America radical??

[RansomOttawa]

You actually don’t know, or understand, that Obama is a far left hate-America radical??

Talk about trying to assume too much. All I said was you can't judge someone by the book he happens to be reading.

Sheesh! Some freepers are so knee-jerk, it's a wonder their calves don't fly off and hit innocent bystanders.

[ETL]

All I said was you can't judge someone by the book he happens to be reading.

How could you possibly think I would be making that judgment solely on that book he was holding. Did you just arrive here yesterday?