Our Own Private Bin Laden

Samira Goetschel's OUR OWN PRIVATE BIN LADEN highlights the historical background that

led to the fatal link between post-Cold War politics and the emergence of new forms

of terrorism that succeeded in establishing their own economy. It traces the connection between privatization,

deregulation and free market and the globalization of terrorism.

Goetschel's consuming work achieves the brilliance of Michael Moore with a great

degree of dignity and restraint. By sheer determination, she collected a trove of

high-caliber interviews with eminent investigative journalists and political figures such as

Cold War-era CIA director Stansfield Turner, former national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski,

Pakistani ex-prime minister Benazir Bhutto and the world's leading "public intellectual” Noam Chomsky.