Hints and tips:
...It was Powell who immediately saw the importance of co-opting Pakistan, and, more discreetly, Iran, in the effort against Afghanistan-based Osama bin Laden....
...When Donald Rumsfeld was asked in 2006 how the search for Osama bin Laden was going, his response was: “If you’re chasing the chicken around the chicken yard and you don’t have him yet and the question is...
...“On the day when I was in the Situation Room, monitoring the raid that brought Osama bin Laden to justice, he was hosting the ‘Celebrity Apprentice’,” she said....
...Secondly, he points out, Osama bin Laden stopped using a mobile phone in 1998 — not because of leaks to newspapers but because “there is an aggressive form of Darwinism in terrorist circles....
...Laden or Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on westerners?...
...Today he is under pressure to launch air strikes – and possibly more – to defend Iraq from the same terrorists he said were in retreat after the killing of Osama bin Laden....
...From Dr Peter V Mathews....
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...“[Bin Laden] was like a mythical figure. He was their symbol,” he said, turning away occasionally to make a ‘V for victory’ sign for tourists’ photographs....
...Sadly, the Middle East is a place where the likes of Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden can easily inspire fascination and devotion....
...Shouldn’t the film have mentioned – just once – the name Osama bin Laden, a jihadist warrior who turned his empowerment, once Islam’s first foe was scattered, against the second foe, which happened to be...
...Osama bin Laden, who watched Arsenal several times in London in 1994, remarked that he had never seen such passion as among soccer fans. Football in Europe was a “man’s game”....
...It seems tactless to mention another prominent Saudi dissident, Osama bin Laden. Yet as the prince knows, not everyone has a gleaming image of Saudi Arabia....
...“Butt Out” was the New York Daily News' response to Osama bin Laden's Act V entrance in the campaign at the weekend....
...He found it driving agricultural workers on Osama bin Laden’s estate near Kandahar in Afghanistan in 1995, and eventually graduated to driving Osama’s family....
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