Steve Coll
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259 appearances
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2 Sep
Steve Coll’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Also perceived as anti-Muslim and an ally of Israel.
Why would the kingdom, the site of the two holy places, the home of these ideas that had helped defeat the Soviets in Afghanistan, why would the kingdom accommodate the Americans?
It should be doing the opposite.
It should be preparing for the destruction of the second superpower.
This was the essential message of the awakening sheikhs and Osama's.
lectures uh that were captured on on tape recordings and circulated in underground kind of stalls, sort of um black market descent at the time.
Yeah, absolutely crossing a red line, but it's awkward because the bin Laden family is prestigious.
Uh, King Fahd, uh, who is now in charge of the kingdom, is particularly close to the new leader of this the bin Laden family.
Salom, who initially took over after his father's death, has himself died in an ultralight accident in Texas in 1988, and he's succeeded by a senior brother named Bucker.
Sucker is close to King Fahd, so it's a little bit awkward.
They can't just go arrest Osama.
He's got too much clout.
Um, and it it implicates the whole family.
And here you get into, you know, the realities of Saudi social and political.
uh fabrics where it's a soft autocracy at the time.
If if anyone without uh the name bin Laden had said what Osama said, they would have been imprisoned immediately.
But Osama is left alone.
Yes, what you describe unfolds between nineteen ninety and nineteen ninety two, and there's lots of efforts to reel Osama in, and then evidence after evidence that he's not going to listen, that he is hubristic now, that he does see himself.
In fact, he starts to see himself as the righteous leader of the bin Laden company, not just the leader of this movement that he's preaching about.
In response, convinced that they can't persuade him with the right.
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