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Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden?
Morgan Spurlock
Random House
April 2008
On Sale: April 15, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 1400066522
EAN: 9781400066520
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director Morgan Spurlock,
who volunteered his body as a guinea pig for the fast food
industry in
the hit documentary Super Size Me, now sets his sights even
higher in Where in the World Is Osama bin
Laden?
Spurlock
is a jittery father-to-be with a simple question: If OBL is
behind 9/11
and all the ensuing worldwide chaos, then why can’t we just
catch him?
And furthermore, why is his message so compelling to so many
people? So
the intrepid Spurlock kisses his anxious wife goodbye
and–armed with a
complete lack of knowledge, experience, or expertise–sets
out to make
the world safe for infantkind and find the most wanted man
on earth.
After
boning up on his basic knowledge of OBL, Islam, and the
Global War on
Terror–and learning how to treat “sucking chest wounds” in a
“Surviving
Hostile Regions” training course–he hits the Osama trail. He
zigzags
the globe, drawing ever closer to the heart of darkness near
the border
between Afghanistan and Pakistan, where OBL is rumored to be
hiding.
Along the way he interviews imams and princes, refugees and
soldiers,
academics and terrorists. He visits European ghettos where
youth aspire
to global jihad, breaks the Ramadan fast with Muslims in
Cairo, rides
in the bomb squad van in Tel Aviv, and writes his blood type
on his
Kevlar vest at a U.S. base outside of Kandahar. And then the
fun really
starts.
Companion to the acclaimed documentary,
Where in the World is Osama bin Laden?
delves even deeper. What readers come away with is possibly the
first-ever funny book about terrorism, as well as a greater
understanding of aconflict that has cast a shadow across
America and
the world.
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