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Osama Bin Laden
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"Before shifting against the West, Osama Bin Laden was one of the financiers who played the 'great game' in that region. Along with Abdullah Azzam, the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood leader he founded in the mid- 1980s the Services Office (Maktab al Khadamat: MAK), which established recruitment centers around the world. Azzam was killed by a car bomb in late 1989; the MAK split, with the extremist factions joining Bin Laden.
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A video interview of ex-Pakistani Prime minister Benazir Bhutto on November 2, 2007 with David Frost of the BBC has Benazir Bhutto mentioning that Osama Bin Laden was murdered 2:14 into the video. One has to be curious as to how a comment like this could not have leaked into the mainstream American press.
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Those who have met Osama Bin Laden speak of their face-to-face encounters with the religious extremist and terrorist in this documentary. First-person accounts with more than a dozen people provide insight into Bin Laden's life story. Interviews include Robert Fisk, the first Western journalist to interview Bin Laden; Brian Fyfield-Shayler, Bin Laden's grade school teacher; and Essam Deraz, who fought with Bin Laden in Afghanistan.
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Will Osama Bin Laden be named, as many people fear, the Person of the Year by Time Magazine? You can actually bet on it at The Big Book. In odds they have posted in their "Non-sports events" section, The Big Book has Bin Laden a 1/2 favorite to capture the "award", with President George W. Bush at even money, NY mayor Rudy Giuliani and the combined entry of the New York Fire and Police Departments, both listed at 3/1, the United States Armed Forces at 5/1, and John Walker (the American who fought for the Taliban forces) at 8/1. The field (someone else entirely) is 5/1.
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Osama Bin Laden's myspace was deleted after only three days due to an alarming spike in terrorist attacks on aubergines. US Homeland Security chief Michael Chertoff refuses to confirm rumors that the color-coded terror alert will be raised to purple; speaking from an undisclosed location, Dick Cheney warned that the smoking gun could come in the form of a shiitake.
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February 14th, 2008 by Kashif Aziz Imad Mughniyeh, top military leader of Lebanease Hezbollah and labelled as Osama Bin Laden of 1980's, was killed on Tuesday night by a car bomb blast in Damascus, Syria. via Chowrangi
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