Osama bin Laden : a biography /
Thomas R. Mockaitis.
- Santa Barbara, Calif. : Greenwood, c2010.
- xxiii, 152 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
- Greenwood biographies .
- Greenwood biographies. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
A biography of Osama bin Laden, covering his life in Saudi society throughout the 1960s and 1970s, religious conversion, role as a jihadist leader, and status in parts of the Muslim world, and examines the spread of radical Islam and the development, scope, and capabilities of al-Qaida.