
Episode 68: Nelly Lahoud on the Bin Laden Papers
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The American Public Stands by Their President, Uh Uh.
Ba, yeah, i've i've found that really interesting, actually, because you show how he is. He's very learned about islamic history and culture, but i actually, surprisingly, shows little interest in the history, the culture, the philosophy of his enemies in the west. That even though his own letters emphasize the need to know your enemy, his actual interest in, say, american history, uh, is actually very slight. And in fact, the main part that interested him, and here we largely, uh, he largely gets it right, despite some inaccuracies. It was a primary objective of ben laden and aida, first sly, through the nine
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