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From Popular Science to a popular guide to Islam

It’s hard to imagine the mastermind of 9/11 cozying up to an issue of Popular Science magazine, but apparently the American monthly magazine was one of many publications on Osama bin Laden’s reading list. On Wednesday, the federal government revealed a list of books and magazines found in bid Laden’s home in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Here are eight of the most surprising:

1. Necessary Illusions: Thought Control in Democratic Societies by Noam Chomsky
America’s consummate liberal thinker takes on propaganda in democracies.

2. Oxford History of Modern War by Charles Townsend
Everything you wanted to know about war since the 14th century.

3. The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers by Paul Kennedy
A comprehensive study of the ups and downs of global power since 1500.

4. Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward
An inside look at President Obama’s wartime decision making.

5. A Brief Guide to Understanding Islam by I. A. Ibrahim
Published in 1999, the book is meant for non-Muslims.

6. New Pearl Harbor: Disturbing Questions about the Bush Administration and 9/11 by David Ray Griffin
A favorite of conspiracy theorists, New Pearl Harbor argues that the Bush administration allowed the 9/11 attacks to further its interests. It’s interesting to imagine what bin Laden, the 9/11 mastermind, thought about conspiracy theorists who argue the U.S. government, and not al-Qaeda was to blame for the attacks.

7. Popular Science magazine
Bid Laden owned an issue on innovations.

8. Delta Force: Xtreme 2 video game guide
The government release notes that this book probably wasn’t used by bin Laden himself. Still, someone in the compound was apparently a gamer.

Also found alongside the books was a document that appears to be an application to join al-Qaeda, asking questions including whether the applicant would be willing to do a suicide mission and whom al-Qaeda should contact if the applicant became a martyr.

4. Obama’s Wars by Bob Woodward
An inside look at President Obama’s wartime decision making.

Papa Willie wrote:

LTS TRN 2 wrote:Who the fuck are you? Some bawling, smarting little punk? Just walk away, Renee, you're old and tired and no one cares (about your fake posts).. :wink:

According to the deciders, you suck jew cock.

LTS TRN 2 wrote:Can anyone around here actually say on the subject? In this case, the fact that Bin Laden was never charged with anything connected to 9/11. And that he was murdered without any pretense of due process. And that he was familiar with the various theories on who actually committed the New Pearl Harbor.

LTS TRN 2 wrote:Sure, a basic question remains, and that is why was no evidence of Bin Laden's connection to 9/11 ever presented? Why was he never indicted or formally charged for 9/11?

LTS TRN 2 wrote:What do you mean, "who cares"? Suppose he indeed had nothing to do with 9/11--despite his other previous actions? Suppose he really was a patsy--and that's why there was no evidence (and why he denied it)? Suppose it wasn't him at all? You're saying "who cares"?

Moving Sale wrote:OJ is in prison because he was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison you stupid cumshot drinking buffoon.

Goober McTuber wrote:

Moving Sale wrote:OJ is in prison because he was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison you stupid cumshot drinking buffoon.

Where did I suggest otherwise, you angry irrational little man? Forget your meds today?

Moving Sale wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:

Moving Sale wrote:OJ is in prison because he was tried, convicted and sentenced to prison you stupid cumshot drinking buffoon.

Where did I suggest otherwise, you angry irrational little man? Forget your meds today?

I was commenting on how stupid your analogy was you brain dead fuckpillow.

LTS TRN 2 wrote:Indeed, goobs is really redefining "white flag" surrendering. The question remains as to how can someone be so utterly curled in dumb nervous fear that they would so completely abdicate any semblance of a functioning intellect.

LTS TRN 2 wrote:Indeed, goobs is really redefining "white flag" surrendering. The question remains as to how can someone be so utterly curled in dumb nervous fear that they would so completely abdicate any semblance of a functioning intellect.

Goober McTuber wrote:

LTS TRN 2 wrote:Indeed, goobs is really redefining "white flag" surrendering. The question remains as to how can someone be so utterly curled in dumb nervous fear that they would so completely abdicate any semblance of a functioning intellect.

So you and Tiny think this Bin Laden guy was completely innocent? Not a terrorist, just a misunderstood religious zealot?

Moving Sale wrote:

Goober McTuber wrote:

LTS TRN 2 wrote:Indeed, goobs is really redefining "white flag" surrendering. The question remains as to how can someone be so utterly curled in dumb nervous fear that they would so completely abdicate any semblance of a functioning intellect.

So you and Tiny think this Bin Laden guy was completely innocent? Not a terrorist, just a misunderstood religious zealot?

Nice strawman you fat stupid tard

Goober McTuber wrote:I believe Osama headed up one of the major terror groups of our time. I don't care whether he had anything to do with 9-11. He deserved to die. Good riddance to bad rubbish.

"God knows it did not cross our minds to attack the Towers, but after the situation became unbearable—and we witnessed the injustice and tyranny of the American-Israeli alliance against our people in Palestine and Lebanon—I thought about it. And the events that affected me directly were that of 1982 and the events that followed—when America allowed the Israelis to invade Lebanon, helped by the U.S. Sixth Fleet. As I watched the destroyed towers in Lebanon, it occurred to me punish the unjust the same way: to destroy towers in America so it could taste some of what we are tasting and to stop killing our children and women."

— Osama bin Laden, 2004


After his initial denial, Osama bin Laden in 2004 finally claimed responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. The attacks involved the hijacking of four commercial passenger aircraft — United Airlines Flight 93, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 11, and American Airlines Flight 77 — and flying two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, New York, and the third into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, destroying the former, and severely damaging the latter, while the fourth, either intended to target the U.S. Capitol or the White House, crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, with no survivors.