The Man Who Made Osama Bin Laden
There’s no shortage of documentaries or books tracing the “road to 9/11,” or the decadeslong wars that followed in the attack’s wake. But surely one of those paths both began and ended on a street in Peshawar, Pakistan, in November 1989, not far from a mosque on a dead-end road.
TL;DR
- The path to 9/11 and subsequent wars has been extensively documented.
- A key figure in the creation of al Qaeda, Abdullah Azzam, has been largely overlooked.
- Azzam is credited with making al Qaeda and its evils possible.
- A significant event in this context occurred in Peshawar, Pakistan, in November 1989.