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• Tuesday, 18 September, 2001, 16:31 GMT 17:31 UK Who is Osama Bin Laden?.
• Osama Bin Laden: Has called for a holy war against the US.
• Osama Bin Laden is both one of the CIA's most wanted men and a hero to many young people in the Arab world. ...
• In May this year a US jury convicted four men believed to be linked with Bin Laden of plotting the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. ...
• Bin Laden, an immensely wealthy and private man, has been granted a safe haven by Afghanistan's ruling Taleban movement. ...
• Attacks linked to Bin Laden .
• Born in Saudi Arabia to a Yemeni family, Bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ...
• Egyptians, Lebanese, Turks and others - numbering thousands in Bin Laden's estimate - joined their Afghan Muslim brothers in the struggle against an ideology that spurned religion. ...
• After the Soviet withdrawal, the "Arab Afghans", as Bin Laden's faction came to be called, turned their fire against the US and its allies in the Middle East. ...
• Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to work in the family construction business, but was expelled in 1991 because of his anti-government activities there. ...
• He spent the next five years in Sudan until US pressure prompted the Sudanese Government to expel him, whereupon Bin Laden returned to Afghanistan. ...
• Terrorism experts say Bin Laden has been using his millions to fund attacks against the US. ...
• According to the US, Bin Laden was involved in at least three major attacks - the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, the 1996 killing of 19 US soldiers in Saudi Arabia, and the 1998 bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. ...
• BBC correspondent James Robbins says Bin Laden had "all but admitted involvement" in the Saudi Arabia killings. ...
• Analysts say Bin Laden's organisation is very different from the groups that carried out bombings and hijackings in the past in that it is not a tightly knit group with a clear command structure but a loose coalition of groups operating across continents. ...
• American officials believe Bin Laden's associates may operate in over forty countries - in Europe and North America, as well as in the Middle East and Asia. ...

• Usama Bin Laden.
• Usama Bin Muhammad Bin Ladin, Shaykh Usama Bin Ladin, the Prince, the Emir, Abu Abdallah, Mujahid Shaykh, Hajj, the Director.
• Usama Bin Laden is wanted in connection with the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon and for the August 7, 1998, bombings of the United States Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya. ...
• Usama Bin Laden, Muhammad Atef, Ayman Al Zawahiri, Mustafa Mohammed Fadhil, Fazul Abdullah Mohammed, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Fahid Mohammed Ally Msalam , Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan, Abdullah Ahmed Abdullah, Saif Al-Adel, Anas Al-Liby, Ahmed Mohamed Hamed Ali, and Muhsin Musa Matwalli Atwah, and others already in custody are believed to be responsible for the bombings of the U. ...   These terrorist are believed to be part of an international criminal conspiracy headed by Usama Bin Laden. ...

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• Osama bin Laden, a former Saudi Arabian national, is believed to be living in Afghanistan where he directs a network of Islamic fundamentalists in terrorist operations. ...
• A Palestinian journalist got a call early Tuesday from one of bin Laden's aides who was at a hideout in Afghanistan. ...
• The aide said that when bin Laden found out about the attacks, he "thanked almighty Allah and bowed before him. ...
• Bin Laden, who's believed to be about 40 years old, is worth $200 to $250 million. ...
• Bin Laden has publicly admitted to several attacks on the United States, including direct bomb attacks on U. ...
• Bin Laden's wealth comes from his family. ...
• Bin Laden has also been a main figure in the Islamic movement, working to topple a pro-Western monarchy in Saudi Arabia. ...
• In 1998, bin Laden explained why he declared a "jihad" -- a holy war -- on the United States. ...
• As part of his crusade, bin Laden allegedly has been providing funds for Islamic terrorists. But in a twist on the stereotypical terrorism model, bin Laden's terrorist group is not identified with a single country. ...

• BIN LADEN FEARED TO HAVE SEGWAY SCOOTER.
• forces searching an abandoned Al Qaeda hideout today said they found diagrams of skateboards, gyroscopic technology, and Osama bin Laden riding what appears to be a Razor scooter, further proof that the terrorist leader may have been planning to intensify his revolution by producing personal transportation devices of mass distribution. ...
• If bin Laden or his operatives were able to reproduce the Segway, it could lead to an escalation of the war no one has imagined. ...
• Until now, Bush administration officials had downplayed bin Laden's recent claims of "We have the scooter and we will use it," saying that gyroscopic and tilt sensor technology were likely beyond their abilities. But with today's discovery, experts say it is at least possible bin Laden could produce a "Dirty Scooter" capable of traveling up to six miles on a five-hour charge. ...

• Who is Osama Bin Laden?.
• Osama Bin Laden is top of US President Bush's most wanted list, but to many young people in the Muslim world, he is a hero. ...
• But more than two years after the 9/11 attacks, the whereabouts of Bin Laden himself remain a mystery. ...
• The US commander of coalition forces in Afghanistan has said he expects to bring Bin Laden to justice by the end of 2004. ...
• Those who have met Bin Laden describe him as a mild-mannered man, who is generally polite and hospitable to strangers, yet he has become the most hated and implacable opponent of the US and all it stands for. ...
• BIN LADEN OBJECTIVES Religious war against America and American interests Remove US forces from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Liberate Jerusalem from Israelis Overthrow the "un-Islamic" governments of the region Restore the Caliphate, or pan-Islamic ruler .
• Like his father, who had made his fortune from the construction business and had close ties with the Saudi royal family, the young Bin Laden had religious leanings. ...
• Egyptians, Lebanese, Turks and others - numbering thousands in Bin Laden's estimate - joined their Afghan Muslim brothers in the struggle against a Soviet ideology that spurned religion. ...
• Bin Laden opened a guesthouse in Peshawar - a stopping-off point for Arab mujahideen fighters. ...
• As a military commander, Bin Laden was respected for his organisational skills, his bravery and, above all, for his ability to survive. ...
• Bin Laden is accused of involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings .
• After the Soviet withdrawal, the "Arab Afghans", as Bin Laden's faction came to be called, looked forward to a warm welcome at home. ...
• But Bin Laden quickly became disillusioned by the lack of recognition for his achievements. ...
• Instead, half a million US soldiers were invited on to Saudi soil - a historic betrayal in Bin Laden's eyes. ...
• Bin Laden became an out-and-out opponent of the Saudi regime and began to direct his efforts against the US and its allies in the Middle East. ...
• The US put pressure on the Sudanese Government to expel him, prompting Bin Laden's return to Afghanistan where he became increasingly messianic and radical. ...

• Bin Laden has several Nuclear Suitcases.
• Master terrorist Ossame Bin Laden has acquired portable nuclear devices, a U. ... "There is no longer much doubt that Bin Laden has finally succeeded in his quest for nuclear ‘suitcase bombs," says Yossef Bodansky, head of the Congressional Task Force on Non-Conventional Terrorism in Washington. In a recent book, Bodansky reports that Bin Laden’s associates acquired the devices through Chechnya, paying the Chechens $30 million in cash and two tons of Afghan heroin, worth about $70 million in Afghanistan and about 10 times that on the street in Western cities. ...
• "Nonstate actors" refers to terrorist organizations like the one US officials claim is headed by Osama bin Laden. ...

• Appoints Bin Laden to Run Iraq .
• Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld announced today that Usama bin Laden has been named to head the interim government in Iraq. ... bin Laden will immediately appoint a cabinet which will develop a constitution and schedule popular elections as early as this summer.
• bin Laden who has the best interests of the Iraqi people at heart. ...
• bin Laden, who is dead, could not be reached for comment.
• Al-Queda spokesjihadi says Osama not available to run Iraq.
• Bin Laden would probably be too busy lecturing as an invited speaker at American universities to find any time for governing Iraq. As it turns out, the odds are pretty good that whoever does end up running Iraq won't be all that different from Bin Laden anyway. ...
• Osama Bin Laden has just released a new tape obtained by Al jeezra news .
• Wasn't Osama Sunni, not Shi'ite?.
• Osama(Who is dead. ...
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• Oddly, the connection between the latter country and Osama bin Laden brought the otherwise undistinguished gum to public consciousness in 2001, as an urban legend arose that bin Laden owned a significant fraction of the gum arabic production in the Sudan, and that therefore one should boycott products using it. ...
• Eventually the US State Department issued a release stating that while Osama bin Laden had once had considerable holdings in Sudanese gum arabic production, he divested himself of these when he was expelled from Sudan in 1996. ...

• bin Laden' Story.
• ' It reports that according to the BBC program, 'Newsnight,' the Bush administration told the FBI to back off from investigating the bin Laden family's terrorist connections before the attack on the World Trade Center. ...
• According to the publication, 'Le Figaro,' a CIA agent visited Osama bin Laden last July. 'Figaro' reports that this meeting took place while bin Laden was being treated in the American Hospital in Dubai, one of the United Arab Emirates. ...
• In that hearing, Congressman Dana Rohrabacher clashed with important US officials when he charged the Clinton administration with sabotaging efforts to arrest bin Laden. ...
• It has become increasingly evident that the official story, that Osama bin Laden broke with the U. ... bin Laden is full of holes. ...
• According to the official story, bin Laden broke with the Saudi and U. ...
• After all, Iraq is an Arab country and bin Laden is an Arab. ...
• Saudi Arabia was and is tyrannized by the fanatical Fundamentalist Wahhabi sect, endorsed by the Saudi 'royal family' and by the rich bin Laden family as well. ...
• Bin Laden spent the 1980s fighting a secular government (which was backed by Soviet troops) in Afghanistan. ...
• Thus, bin Laden had no defensive reason to call on "the Saudi royal family to organize civil defense in the kingdom" let alone "to raise a force from among the Afghan war veterans to fight Iraq. ...
• In any event, it was clear bin Laden was not upset by the notion of fighting Iraq. ...
• Bin laden had worked closely with U. ...
• Why should bin Laden suddenly go berserk because the Saudi Arabian government was doing exactly what he himself had done - as the representative of the Saudi Arabian government? .
• Osama's family company, Saudi Binladin Group (the name is spelled differently but it's the same family) is intimate with the Saudi royal family; moreover it is the biggest Saudi construction company (and also a giant in the telecommunications field). ...

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• Osama bin Laden (1957- ), Saudi Arabian multimillionaire suspected of planning terrorist attacks against the United States. In 1999 the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) placed bin Laden on its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list in connection with the bombings of U. ... Little is known in the West about bin Ladenâ ™s life. ...
• Bin Laden first came to international attention in the 1980s in Afghanistan for his role in the Afghan resistance to Soviet occupation forces. ... During his youth bin Laden had embraced fundamentalist Islamic teachings, and he regarded the Soviet invasion as an unforgivable assault on Muslim land. To aid the resistance, bin Laden provided funds and supplies, built guerrilla training camps, trenches, and roads, and recruited and transported large numbers of military volunteers from Arab nations. ... In 1988 near the end of the war, bin Laden established al-Qaeda (Arabic for â œthe Baseâ �), an organization that, according to U. ...
• After Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia. ... Bin Laden was angered by the presence of the U. ...
• Many veterans of the Afghan war, who had become known as Arab Afghans, joined bin Laden in Sudan. ... and Saudi governments, Sudan expelled bin Laden, and he went into hiding in Afghanistan.

• Osama bin Laden.
• Born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1957 into an Yemeni family, Osama bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to fight against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. ... Bin Laden fought alongside the Afghan guerrillas during the US-backed Jehad, or ‘holy war’, against the Soviet Union after it invaded Afghanistan in 1979. During the Afghan conflict, bin Laden is also reported to have established many terrorist-training camps.
• The US, bin Laden maintains, is responsible for the ‘most reprehensible acts of world terrorism’, such as the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as also the bombing in Iraq. ...
• After the Soviet withdrawal, the ‘Arab Afghans’, as bin Laden's faction came to be called, turned their attention against the United States of America and its allies in the Middle East. Since the Persian Gulf War in 1991, bin Laden has utilised his public statements to deliberately create an image as the leader of a religious struggle on behalf of what he perceives to be the dispossessed of the Islamist community. ... In a lengthy statement in 1996, outlining his philosophy, bin Laden denounced the ‘occupation’ of the Arab Holy Land by ‘American crusader forces’, which he described as the ‘latest and greatest aggression’ against the Islamist world since the death of the prophet Muhammad. According to bin Laden, the U. ...
• Osama bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to work in the family construction business after the Russian withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1989, but was expelled in 1991 because of his anti-government activity there. ... Owing to bin Laden’s opposition to the ruling Al Saud family, Saudi Arabia revoked his citizenship in 1994 and his family disavowed him, although some of his brothers have reportedly maintained contact with him. Kept under house arrest in Jeddah because of his opposition to the Saudi alliance with the United States, bin Laden fled the country in April 1991, moving first to Afghanistan and later to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. A fundamentalist Islamist regime had come to power in Sudan by then, and was permitting Muslims to enter the country without visas and bin Laden seized the opportunity. ... While residing in Sudan, bin Laden financed and assisted setting up at least three terrorist training camps in cooperation with the National Islamic Front of Hassan al-Turabi, and his construction company is reported to have worked directly with certain Sudanese military officials to transport and supply terrorists to such camps. ... In Sudan, bin Laden invested in various commercial ventures including construction, farming and banking. ...
• Laden is reported to be operating several terrorist training camps in Afghanistan, where Islamist terrorists prepare for Jehad in places as far apart as in Central Asia, Jammu and Kashmir, West Asia, southeast Asia and, increasingly, Western (especially US) targets. Laden has been provided shelter by the Taliban regime in Afghanistan for several years now and the Taliban have refused repeated US requests for his extradition. ... It was their requirement for money that made the Taliban initially agreed to host bin Laden, who later cemented ties by entering into a matrimonial alliance with Taliban chief Mullah Omar. Since the August 1998 US retaliatory strikes on Afghan camps and the Sudanese pharmaceutical plant, the Taliban leadership has attempted to distance itself from bin Laden. However, the Taliban regime have rejected repeated US requests to extradite him, claiming that the United States has not provided convincing evidence regarding bin Laden’s involvement in anti-US terrorist activity. ...

• Osama bin Laden .
• Osama bin Laden has from the late 1990's grown into becoming the most known terrorist leader from the Muslim world, even if no condemning evidence ever has been presented. Osama has however often called for fighting against what he perceives as corrupt leaders of the Muslim world, as well as fighting against powers like Israel and USA. Following several terrorist attacks in the 1990's, Osama has congratulated the perpetrators, at the same time as claiming that he is not involved.
• Osama is of Saudi Arabian origin, but his Saudi citizenship was revoked in 1994 as a reaction to his attempts to overthrow the regime of Saudi Arabia. ...
• It is doubtful if Osama is involved in the details of the terrorist actions. From his base in Afghanistan, he has little contact with the rest of the world, and it likely that he his role is defining ideology, defining core goals and distributing funds for the many terrorist groups that work together with Osama's Al-Qa'ida.
• Osama's rhetorics are not different in many fields from what is rather common around the Muslim world. ... But Osama goes further, and involves himself in violent actions around the world, especially in Muslim countries. ...
• Osama has few friends among the leaders of the Muslim world. ...
• No matter what one might think of Osama's policy, there is no reason to believe that he is anything but honest in his belief. ...
• Osama has been described as a charismatic and ascetic man enjoying few luxuries, and who is almost mechanically true to his principles.
• Following attempts on his life in 1997, Osama has become more concerned about his own safety than before, and he now moves between 4 or 5 camps near Kandahar. ...
• Osama has been involved in establishing 2 very important organizations, MAK (Maktabu l-khidamat) in 1979 and Al-Qa'ida in 1988. ...
• MAK was started by Osama together with the leader of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood, Abdallah Azzam.
• With MAK, Osama was able to recruit troops from all over the Arab world, but especially from Saudi Arabia, Algeria and Egypt. ...

•   Who is Osama Bin-Laden?.
• Osama (also "Usama") bin Laden was born in 1957 to a wealthy Yemeni family in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. ...
• When in 1979 the former Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, bin Laden is reported to have said that it was his duty as a Muslim to fight against the invasion.
• Using his family's fortune, bin Laden provided support and training for the fighters, forming Maktab al-Khidimat (MAK) group composed of Muslims from all over the world. ...
• Even more ironic is the fact that bin Laden most likely received some training from the CIA during this time. (Who is Osama Bin Laden? - BBC) .
• Left alone with his growing Afghan resistance organization al Qaeda, bin Laden switched the focus of his organization from fighting Soviets to fighting all non-Muslims in the neighboring regions. Bin Laden's new enemies were now the American forces that were left behind in the Afghanistan as well as their Middle Eastern allies.
• Shortly after the end of war with the Soviets, bin Laden moved back to Saudi Arabia.
• bin Laden was expelled again. ...
• Inside the mind of Osama bin Laden .
• 20 — Several months after Osama bin Laden declared holy war on the United States in August 1996, an Arab journalist trekked up to his hideout, 8,000 feet high in the mountains of southern Afghanistan. ...
• — OSAMA BIN LADEN in 1998 .
• “IF WE WANTED to carry out small operations, it would have been easy to do,” bin Laden told the reporter. ...
• In the 10 years before his emergence last week as the prime suspect in the deadliest terrorist attack in history, bin Laden, 44, has described his goals, grievances and tactics in great detail in a series of statements and interviews. ...
• Elements of the attacks in New York and Washington were clearly foreshadowed by bin Laden’s explanations of his vision and methods. ... Meticulous planning — sometimes for as long as three or four years — has been a hallmark of terrorist operations associated with bin Laden, including the 1998 bomb attacks on U. ...

• The enigmatic Osama.
• bin Laden.
• The portrait of Osama bin Laden in the West following the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon is that of a homicidal madman – the loose-cannon, black-sheep offspring of a wealthy Saudi construction family. ...
• Yet the picture painted in "Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America," by Yossef Bodansky is somewhat different – that of a charismatic guerrilla leader who rose to the role of national hero in his native Saudi Arabia following his heroic campaign in Afghanistan battling the Soviet Union. ...
• Now in his mid-40s, bin Laden is a university graduate with computer skills and experience as a major contractor and engineer. ...
• "Had he followed the path chosen for him by his father, bin Laden could have been a respected building contractor in Saudi Arabia and a billionaire in his own right," writes Bodansky. ...
• Bin Laden was born in Riyadh sometime around 1957. His father, Muhammad bin Laden, was at the time a small-time builder and contractor who had moved to Saudi Arabia from Yemen. Osama is one of more than 50 children in his family, educated in Medina and Jiddah. ...
• The oil boom of the 1970s had a major impact on the bin Laden family. ...
• Later, the bin Ladens were responsible for construction of major roads, buildings, other mosques, airports and the entire infrastructure of other Arab countries in the Persian Gulf. ...
• Osama bin Laden studied management and economics in Saudi Arabia's best schools. ... In his youth, bin Laden frequented flashy nightclubs, casinos and bars in Beirut and was known as a drinker and a womanizer who frequently ended up in bar brawls. ...
• But something happened to Muhammad bin Laden during the construction projects in Mecca and Medina. ... That experience, in turn, affected Osama bin Laden, who became increasingly interested in Islam. ...
• "Osama bin Laden was strongly influenced by these arguments," writes Bodansky. ...

• Bin Laden Met with the CIA in July and Walked Away.
• While in a Dubai hospital receiving treatment for a chronic kidney infection last July, Osama bin Laden met with a top CIA official - presumably the Chief of Station. The meeting, held in bin Laden's private suite, took place at the American hospital in Dubai at a time when he was a wanted fugitive for the bombings of two U. ... Bin Laden was eligible for execution according to a 2000 intelligence finding issued by President Bill Clinton before leaving office in January. ...
• In his 1991 autobiography "Under Fire," while describing terrorist Abu Abbas, North wrote, "I used to wonder: how many dead Americans will it take before we do something?" One could look at the number of Americans Osama bin Laden is alleged to have killed before September 11 and ask the same question.
• A more complete timeline listing crucial events both before and after the September 11th suicide attacks, which have been blamed on bin Laden, establishes CIA foreknowledge of them and strongly suggests that there was criminal complicity on the part of the U. ...
• While there he meets privately with the Saudi royal family and the bin Laden family. ...
• January, 2001 - The Bush Administration orders the FBI and intelligence agencies to "back off" investigations involving the bin Laden family, including two of Osama bin Laden's relatives (Abdullah and Omar) who were living in Falls Church, VA - right next to CIA headquarters. This followed previous orders dating back to 1996, frustrating efforts to investigate the bin Laden family. ...
• Feb 13, 2001 - UPI Terrorism Correspondent Richard Sale - while covering a trial of bin Laden's Al Q'aeda followers - reports that the National Security Agency has broken bin Laden's encrypted communications. Even if this indicates that bin Laden changed systems in February it does not mesh with the fact that the government insists that the attacks had been planned for years. ...
• A French book released in November, "Bin Laden - La Verite´ Interdite," discloses that Taliban representatives often sat in on the meetings. ...
• August 2001 - The FBI arrests an Islamic militant linked to bin Laden in Boston. French intelligence sources confirm that the man is a key member of bin Laden's network and the FBI learns that he has been taking flying lessons. ...
• July 4-14, 2001 - Osama bin Laden receives treatments for kidney disease at the American hospital in Dubai and meets with a CIA official who returns to CIA headquarters on July 15th. ...
• by bin Laden in the week prior to 9/11. ...

• Osama bin Laden.
• Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh in 1957. He is said to be the 17th of 52 children by Yemeni-born Muhammad bin Laden, Saudi Arabia's wealthiest construction magnate with close ties to King Faisal of Saudi Arabia. After his father's death in 1968, Osama bin Laden inherited some estimated $300 million.
• According to The Mideast Mirror, after his secondary school graduation in Jiddah in 1973, Osama Bin Laden enjoyed life in nightclubs and bars in Beirut, a period which ended in 1975 with the outbreak of civil war in Lebanon.
• In 1979, Osama bin Laden graduated from King Abdul Aziz University in Jiddah with a degree in civil engineering. ...
• After Soviet troops had invaded Afghanistan on December 26, 1979, Osama bin Laden left Saudi Arabia to join the Afghan resistance to fight the atheist communist regime. ...
• For the Reagan administration, the Afghan mujahedeen and Osama bin Laden were, as the enemy's enemy, an ally in their efforts to contain Moscow in the region. However, according to Bin Laden and American intelligence sources, there was no direct contact between them.
• In 1984, Osama bin Laden moved to the Pakistani border town of Peshawar. ... In 1987, Osama bin Laden split from MAK and established al Qaeda (the Islamic Salvation Foundation), an umbrella organization for ex-mujahedeen and other extremist groups. According to some Islamic sources, Osama bin Laden became an important guerilla leader in the late 1980s and participated in numerous battles against Soviet troops; other sources maintain that he remained a man in the background who was never active in war. ...
• Osama bin Laden was one of those who, after having successfully fought the Soviet invaders in Afghanistan, thought that they could change their home countries too. According to Abdullah Anas, in Afghanistan, Osama bin Laden fell under the influence of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad who had helped assassinate President Anwar el-Sadat in 1981. ... Osama bin Laden became involved in opposition movements to the Saudi monarchy while working for his family's Bin Laden Group, the country's biggest construction company.
• During the Gulf War, Osama bin Laden opposed the US-Saudi alliance because King Fahd invited the United States and its allies to station forces in Saudi Arabia. The presence of American soldiers in Saudi Arabia, the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad with the holy cities of Mecca and Medina enraged bin Laden as well as other Arabs. Osama bin Laden turned radically anti-American. ...

• Osama bin Laden: Netzwerker im Schatten.
• Nur wenige Stunden nach den verheerenden Anschlägen auf das World Trade Centre und das Pentagon erklärte der ehemalige NATO-Oberbefehlshaber Wesley Clark in Washington: Die einzige Organisation auf der Welt, die eine derart komplizierte Operation finanzieren und organisieren könne, sei die Terrorgruppe um Osama bin Laden. ...
• Vieles im Leben des als "gefährlichster Terrorist der Welt" bezeichneten Osama bin Laden (oder Ussamah bin Ladin) liegt im Dunklen oder ist unsicher. ...
• Die Familie bin Laden stammt aus dem Hadramaut, einer Region im Süden der Arabischen Halbinsel, im heutigen Jemen. ... Die spätere Freundschaft mit dem Monarchen Saudi-Arabiens erleichterte den spektakulären Aufstieg von Muhammad bin Laden, der zuerst als Hafenarbeiter in Jeddah arbeitete und später eine Baufirma gründete, zu einem der bedeutendsten Unternehmer des Landes. ... Unter anderem stellte die Bin Laden Group im letzten Jahr das über 300 m hohe Faisiliya Centre in Riad, Geschäftszentrum und höchstes Gebäude des Landes, fertig. ...
• Osama bin Laden.
• Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden, so sein vollständiger Name, wurde 1957 als vermutlich siebzehntes von 57 Kindern des durch zahlreiche Heiraten mit allen Eliten des Landes verbundenen Muhammad bin Laden geboren. ... Obwohl schon mit 17 Jahren an eine syrische Verwandte verheiratet, soll sich Osama - wie die meisten saudischen Oberschichtkinder, die es sich leisten können, ihr Unterhaltungsbedürfnis jenseits der Grenzen ihrer puritanischen Gesellschaft auszuleben - während seiner Studienzeit oft in Beirut, der damaligen kulturellen Metropole der arabischen Welt, vergnügt haben. Von seinen Studienfreunden wurde der 1,93 m große und schlanke Bin Laden dennoch als ein stiller, zurückhaltender und unauffälliger Zeitgenosse beschrieben. ...
• Bin Ladens Basis.
• Noch 1979 habe er sich dem afghanischen Widerstand angeschlossen, erklärte Osama bin Laden 1993 in einem Interview für den Independent. ... Der amerikanische CIA - mit dem bin Laden damals auch persönlichen Kontakt gehabt haben soll - beteiligte sich u. ...
• In einem Interview sagte Bin Laden später: "To counter these atheist Russians, the Saudis chose me as their representative in Afghanistan I settled in Pakistan in the Afghan border region. ... (zitiert nach AFP, Laden planned a global Islamic revolution in 1995, 27. ...
• Im Jahr 1989 wurde Bin Ladens enger Freund und Mentor Abdullah Azam, welcher das Makhtab al Khidmat genannte Gästehaus geleitet hatte, ermordet. Bin Laden übernahm daraufhin die Leitung der Organisation. ...

• Osama bin Laden and Taliban One-Liner Jokes.
• Q: How is Bin Laden like Fred Flintstone?.
• Q: What do Bin Laden and Hiroshima have in common?.
• Q: What does Osama bin laden and General Custer have in common?.

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• September legen der Afghanistan-Experte Michael Pohly und der Islamforscher Khalid Durán eine Studie über Osama bin Laden und das von ihm gesponnene internationale Netzwerk des Terrors vor. Kenntnisreich zeichnen sie ein detailliertes Bild sowohl von bin Laden und seiner Ideologie als auch von dem taktischen und strategischen Konzept, mit dem er die Globalisierung seines "heiligen Terrors" betreibt. ...
• Auch der ideologische Lehrer Osama bin Ladens, Schaikh Dr. ...
• Steckt hinter den Anschlägen mitten ins Herz Amerikas der Islamistenführer Osama bin Laden? Ist er der Drahtzieher des internationalen Terrors, der mit einem 'Heiligen Krieg' mit Selbstmordattentätern die gesamte westliche Welt bedroht und dabei die eigentlich friedliebende Religion des Islam für seine Zwecke missbraucht? .
• Wer sich intensiv mit dem Islam, Osama Bin Laden und dem modernen Terror beschäftigen möchte, der greift hier zum falschen Buch. ...
• Beeindruckend fand ich, wie aus dem Porträt bin Ladens hervorgeht, mit welcher Raffinesse sich dieser "Geschäftsmann ohne nennenswerte religiöse Unterweisung" (Zitat aus d. ...
• In übersichtlicher Form wird außerdem klar, welche Machtkonstellationen in Afghanistan seit der Einwanderungen der Sowjets das Schicksal des Landes bestimmen - und wie bin Laden in diesem Umfeld seine Fäden gesponnen hat.
• Auch wenn auf die Familie Osama bin Ladens ein wenig und auf die geschäftlichen Verstrickungen der bin Ladens etwas ausführlicher eingegangen wird, so kommt die Person Osama bin Laden in diesem Buch leider etwas zu kurz. ...
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• Bin Laden: the former CIA 'client' obsessed with training pilots .
• What was most remarkable about the trial was the way it uncovered the secret workings of al-Qaida, the 5,000-strong terror organisation run by Bin Laden. How the group used videos to brainwash people into doing Osama bin Laden's will. ...
• The weapons in question were not airliners that time round, but al-Qaida already had the capacity to supply planes and pilots, as made clear by this testimony from a Bin Laden associate, Essam al Ridi, formerly a flight instructor at the Ed Boardman school of aviation in Texas: .
• There was quite a few communications between me and Wadih el-Hage about the interests of Osama acquiring an airplane_ .
• And what did he tell you about the airplane that he wished you to purchase for Osama bin Laden? .
• Again, I'm referring to Wadih and Osama. ...
• Another aspect of this was quotation from the Koran, in the context of speeches by Bin Laden himself and his lieutenants, to justify violent actions. ...
• "And he [Bin Laden] would quote from the Koran and try to convince people through those quotes that what al-Qaida was doing and what you were being asked to do was something that a good Muslim would do, right?" .
• Bin Laden's own methods and hobbyhorses also came to light, such as his use of an Inmarsat satellite telephone to relay instructions, and his procuring of planes and pilots for al-Qaida use: at one point, ominously, he seems to have been obsessed with this. ...
• L'Houssaine Kherchtou, a former Bin Laden associate turned government witness, told the court how he was asked to take flying lessons: .
• You knew, for example, that Osama Bin Laden was the emir or the leader of al-Qaida, correct? .
• It was not just information about Bin Laden and al-Qaida that emerged in the trial. ...
• The sheer scale of Bin Laden's operations also materialised: it had not hitherto been apparent that al-Qaida operatives had been involved in the attacks on US helicopters and marines in Somalia in 1994. ...
• 2001: Bin Laden: the former CIA 'client' obsessed with training pilots.

• Bin Laden's Felt-Skinned Henchman?.
• Park NEW YORK — Do the global terror links reach even as far as Sesame Street? Is Bert the Muppet a henchman of terrorist mastermind Usama bin Laden?.
• The answer is clearly no, but puzzled newspaper readers are still wondering how the Sesame Street icon ended up in a news service photograph of a pro-bin Laden protest in Bangladesh. The pictures showed demonstrators holding up a large poster in which bin Laden and Bert are standing next to each other. ...
• The poster is a collage of pictures of bin Laden in white robes or in camouflage fatigues and sometimes lecturing with a microphone in his hand, all ringing a large portrait of the bearded Saudi exile. ...
• The first known Bert-bin Laden posters appeared on Oct. ...
• Cosby said Rafiqur Rahman, a native Bangladeshi, did not know that he was photographing a Muppet when he covered a prayer demonstration for bin Laden's health Oct. ...
• Rahman is going to a local marketplace to hunt down more Bert-bin Laden posters Wednesday, Cosby said. ...
• A week after the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, someone e-mailed him an altered picture of bin Laden standing next to Bert wearing a trenchcoat and looking very angry. ...

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• abandoned Afghanistan, tried to work with the Taliban, and failed to stop Osama bin Laden -- even though terrified CIA agents knew he was about to strike. ...
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• He'd better hope he finds Osama in October. ...
• Satan? Readers debate the influence of the Dark Lord on Bush, Saddam, Osama and the rest of contemporary culture. ...
• CIA veteran Bob Baer talks about the censored 9/11 report, why al-Qaida is still cozy in the house of Saud -- and why Osama is winning. ...
• American personnel are more devoted to linking Osama to Saddam than to finding and "neutralizing" him. ...
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