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Before discussing Esalen's work in uniting the Abrahamic family, allow me to set the context by sharing the story of Esalen's first venture into citizen diplomacy. In the fall of , I first came to Esalen for a weeklong workshop to brainstorm on the problems and threats in the U.S.-Soviet relationship.

At that time our governments were dangerously estranged. The Russians had invaded Afghanistan the year before, in , and installed a “puppet” prime minister after some Soviet aid workers were murdered by Afghans.

President Jimmy Carter was unable to put an end to the invasion. The main course of action was to cut off cultural exchanges and other communication between Washington and Moscow.

The State Department, where I worked, set up a committee to persuade countries to boycott the summer Olympics in Moscow. I called it the Committee to Kill the Moscow Olympics.

So there we were, thousands of multi-warhead nuclear ICBMs aimed at each other, and the two countries weren’t communicating. Truly a recipe for disaster. Esalen co-founder Michael Murphy, Dulce Murphy, and close colleagues had visited the Soviet Union to meet people interested in higher forms of human creativity and physical performance.

But they, like the rest of us, had contracted the “fear of frying” that was widespread in both the U.S, and the U.S.S.R. at the time.

Back at Esalen, they assembled a group of more than 40 people from across the country to discuss the U.S./U.S.S.R. situation. At the workshop, we were all asked on short notice to say why we had come to Esalen.

I sometimes joke that the Angel Gabriel inspired me to say, since I was an active duty Foreign Service officer, “I suppose you could say that what I do is track one diplomacy, and what you [the Murphys, et al] do could be called track two diplomacy.”

This simple formulation described unofficial, informal interaction between representatives of groups or nations in confl

George W. Bush, America&#;s 43rd President (), was transformed into a wartime President in the aftermath of the airborne terrorist attacks on September 11, , facing the &#;greatest challenge of any President since Abraham Lincoln.&#;

The airborne terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the thwarted flight against the White House or Capitol on September 11, , in which nearly 3, Americans were killed, transformed George W. Bush into a wartime president. The attacks put on hold many of Bush’s hopes and plans, and Bush’s father, George Bush, the 41st president, declared that his son “faced the greatest challenge of any president since Abraham Lincoln.”

In response, Bush formed a new cabinet-level Department of Homeland Security, sent American forces into Afghanistan to break up the Taliban, a movement under Osama bin Laden that trained financed and exported terrorist teams. The Taliban was successfully disrupted but Bin Laden was not captured and was still on the loose as Bush began his second term. Following the attacks, the president also recast the nation’s intelligence gathering and analysis services, and ordered reform of the military forces to meet the new enemy. At the same time he delivered major tax cuts which had been a campaign pledge. His most controversial act was the invasion of Iraq on the belief that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein posed a grave threat to the United States. Saddam was captured, but the disruption of Iraq and the killing of American servicemen and friendly Iraqis by insurgents became the challenge of Bush’s government as he began his second term. President Bush pledged during his State of the Union Address that the United States would help the Iraqi people establish a fully democratic government because the victory of freedom in Iraq would strengthen a new ally in the war on terror, bring hope to a troubled region, and lift a threat from the lives of future generations.

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Osama bin Laden’s weekly visits to Shakespeare’s birthplace and the Bard’s historic links to the Gunpowder Plot will be among the stories explored in a new documentary airing on BBC Radio 3.

‘Shakespeare and Terrorism’, presented by Dr Islam Issa, Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Birmingham City University, examines how the iconic playwright’s work has been linked to acts of terror or influenced terrorists.

The documentary will look at how the Bard’s work has been viewed and interpreted by extremists from across the globe including bin Laden, Guy Fawkes, Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth and Nazi theorist Carl Schmitt. 

Osama bin Laden

Documents released by the CIA last year detailed bin Laden’s frequent visits to Stratford-upon-Avon as a teenager and his hatred of Shakespeare as a symbol of the West and its political ideology. 

The terror leader wrote in his diaries that "we went every Sunday to visit Shakespeare's house" and these experiences are believed to have coloured his hatred of the West.

Gunpowder Plot  

Links between the Bard and the Gunpowder Plot stem from the fact the plotters included family friends of Shakespeare and that the conspirators had strong links to Stratford-upon-Avon.

Abraham Lincoln’s assassin John Booth, murdered the American President in Ford’s Theatre in Washington. Booth was an actor and fan of Shakespeare who was influenced by the playwright's portrayal of freedom and the murder of the emperor in the play Julius Caesar.

Carl Schmitt

Meanwhile Carl Schmitt used Shakespeare as a way to justify Nazi and fascist ideology and wrote a book focussing on how going against the law can be justified, just as murder ultimately ended Hamlet’s troubles.

Dr Issa believes Shakespeare’s themes and characters make the plays wide open to multiple and varied interpretations.

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Saudi business family

The bin Laden family (Arabic: عائلة بن لادن, romanized:&#;bin Lādin), also spelled bin Ladin, is a wealthy Hadhrami family intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family. It is the namesake and controlling shareholder of the Saudi Binladin Group, a multinational construction firm. Following the September 11 attacks, the family became the subject of media attention and scrutiny due to the activities of Osama bin Laden, the former head of al-Qaeda, even though they publicly disowned him in

Beginnings

The family traces its origins to Awad bin Laden from the village of al-Rubat, in the Wadi Doan of the Tarim Valley, Hadramout governorate, Yemen. Awad's son was Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (). Mohammed bin Laden was a native of the Hadhramaut region in eastern Yemen, and, like many other Hadharem, emigrated to Saudi Arabia prior to World War I. He set up a construction company and came to Abdul Aziz ibn Saud's attention through construction projects, later being awarded contracts for major renovations in Mecca. He made his initial fortune from exclusive rights to construct all mosques and other religious buildings not only in Saudi Arabia, but as far as Ibn Saud's influence reached. Until his death, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden had exclusive control over restorations at the Jami Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem. Soon, the bin Laden corporate network extended far beyond just construction sites.

Mohammed's special intimacy with the monarchy was inherited by the younger bin Laden generation. Mohammed's sons attended Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt. Their schoolmates included King Hussein of Jordan, Zaid Al Rifai, the Kashoggi brothers (whose father was one of the king's physicians), Kamal Adham (who ran the General Intelligence Directorate under King Faisal), present-day contractors Mohammed Al Attas, Fahd Shobokshi, Ghassan Sakr, and actor Omar Sharif.

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