And we'll be discussing the new book today. And currently she is a senior fellow at New America's International Security Program but most important for the discussion today, Nelly is the author of a new book, which is titled The Bin Laden Papers: How the Abbottabad Raid Revealed the Truth about Al-Qaeda, Its Leader and His Family. She's taught at Goucher College and the US Military Academy at West Point, including the combating terrorism center for which she's contributed numerous publications. Nelly is a political scientist by background. And you can find our work at I'm Cole Bunzel, a Hoover fellow and member of the working group and today I'm very pleased to be speaking with Nelly Lahoud, a scholar and researcher who has written extensively on Islamic political thought, jihadism and Al-Qaeda among other topics. And you are listening to the Caravan Podcast, a venture of the Herbert and Jane Dwight Working Group on the Middle East and the Islamic world at the Hoover Institution, the Working Group publishes research and commentary on the Middle East with questions for US policy.
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To view the full transcript of this episode, read below:Ĭole Bunzel: Welcome, today is June 13th, 2022. Lahoud answers these questions and more in this episode. How strong an organization was al-Qaeda in the decade after 9/11, and what were its objectives? How should we understand the relationship between al-Qaeda and Iran, and between al-Qaeda and the Taliban? How predictable was the rise of the Islamic State? What was life like in the Abbottabad compound? Dr. Nelly Lahoud, a scholar at New America, has written the first history of al-Qaeda based on a systematic reading of these documents, which lay bare the secrets of the group and serve to correct some existing narratives. The special forces raid that killed Osama bin Laden in May 2011 yielded a massive trove of documents never intended for publication, but in 2017 the CIA declassified them in their entirety.
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