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How Osama bin Laden Changed My Life

Posted on May 1, 2012 by matthewvandyke
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How Osama bin Laden Changed My Life

My article this week is at The Huffington Post.  Click below to read it:

“I didn’t learn that Osama bin Laden was dead until August 24, 2011, nearly four months after he was killed. I had just escaped from Abu Salim prison in Libya a few hours earlier and was talking to my girlfriend on the phone for the first time in nearly six months.”

“I now realize with the benefit of hindsight that the course of my life was altered dramatically by Osama bin Laden in ways that I had never considered. Specifically, the response by my country to bin Laden’s attack on 9/11 changed my fate and exposed me to a world and experiences that would lead me down a very strange path.”

Read more at The Huffington Post HERE

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Matthew VanDyke is the American who fought in the 2011 Libyan Revolution against the Gaddafi regime. Captured by Gaddafi's forces on the battlefield during a recon mission, he spent nearly 6 months as a prisoner of war before escaping from prison and returning to the rebel army and combat on the front lines. After they won the war in Libya, he turned his attention to Syria. His documentary film about the Syrian Revolution titled "Not Anymore: A Story of Revolution" won over 100 awards. An award-winning documentary film about Matthew VanDyke, Point and Shoot, was released in 2014. In 2014, VanDyke founded Sons of Liberty International, an innovative security firm that provides free military training and advising to communities threatened by terrorism and insurgency.

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