steve coll's at florence wright?>> i think many of those books are very worthwhile and what i tried to do was to take a different tack than those books so i wouldn't be repeating what had been written already. steve coll's book is an excellent book i think. there a number of very good hoax on bin laden. jason burke wrote one, british journalist, and the problem i had with those books where they were primarily books that were based on what other people had said about osama bin laden, not what he had said or done himself and i have found over the past decade that whenever bin laden speaks, he is very often described as ranting or raving for issuing yet another diatribe and so, thought that i would take the primary sources based on interviews, statements and speeches he made, and write a book based on what he said and see how it turned out. and i think very frankly that when you take the primary sources, which number in my archive and i'm certainly don't have everyone that is available, but i have over 800 pages. when y