391. Road To 9/11: The Rise of Osama Bin Laden (Part 3)

Welcome back to Empire with me, Anita Arnand. and meet William Drimple. And joining us for the next two episodes, I am very proud to say we have back one of my oldest friends and a wonderful, wonderful man, uh an empire veteran, the winner of not one but two Pulitzer prizes. Uh, Steve Cole, the author of Ghost Wars, Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan and bin Laden, and The Bin Laden, an Arabian family. in the American century. Steve Cole, welcome back to Empire.

I'm delighted to be back. Nice to see you both. These two episodes the question that ended the last episode. Who is Azama bin Laden and what is the story of the family? And the kingdom. That made him. Yeah. So can we start, Steve, with the patriarch.

of the bin Laden family. I mean, we give it seventeen kids. The bin Laden. was part of it a it seems like an enormous brood, but tell us about Bin Laden Senior. Mohammed Bin Laden, yes. He

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