“I bet one of bin Laden’s goons sent it to that bookshelf because of their eagerness about ‘American decline’ and never saw what it said about Arab religious fanaticism leading to their historical eclipse in the 16th century.”īin Laden also had a taste for the apocalyptic, including “The 2030 Spike: Countdown to Global Catastrophe” by Colin Mason. His book “The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers” was found in and around bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, where bin Laden was killed in a raid by U.S. “It’s far more political and economic than religious or ideological.”Īmong the more mainstream choices were “Obama’s Wars,” written by the Washington Post’s Bob Woodward and published in 2010, and “Oxford History of Modern War” by Charles Townsend, first published in 2000.īut Paul Kennedy, a professor of history and director of international security studies at Yale University, questioned whether bin Laden or someone in his group even bothered to read the book jacket before plunking down the cash. “It’s an interesting selection,” says Aram Sinnreich, media professor at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, N.J.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, there was no self-help book or beach read among them. wrote about al Qaeda as well as religious documents in Arabic and English-language books. Bin Laden liked to read what journalists - many from the U.S.
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