Laden, Osama bin

Osama bin Laden is the big, bad bogey-man who has fear and loathing etched into the faces of all Americans, yet his many relatives love the United States it is estimated that forty of them were living here on September 11,2001. Most of them left the country within two days, and the United States just let them go rather than taking them into custody as material witnesses. The family is all-important in Saudi Arabian culture as it is in Arab and Muslim populations around the world. Osama secrets himself in the mountains and poverty of Afghanistan, although it is not well known to the American public is that in Boston two of his uncles and one of his sons are wealthy businessmen Harvard University was given 2,000,000 by the bin Laden family. 

Some of the most skilled and resolute terrorists remain at large including Osama Bin Laden, his deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi,... 

Bombing of U.S. Embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam — On August 7, 1998, 224 innocent civilians were killed and over 5000 were wounded by terrorist bombs exploded at the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. The terrorists responsible are believed to be part of an international criminal conspiracy headed by Osama bin Laden. 

President Bush responded to the attacks by ousting the Taliban from power in Afghanistan after the Taliban refused to turn over Osama bin Laden to face trial for the September 11 terrorist attacks. 

TRWA is reported to have connections to the Islamic terror network [of] Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman - the convicted mastermind behind the 1993 World Trade Centre bombing - and Osama Bin Laden, the wealthy Saudi terrorist implicated in the 11th September 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States.42... 

Osama Bin Laden and the al-Qaeda movement he helped create sought nuclear weapons capabilities throughout the 1990s. A number of reports indicated that al-Qaeda... 

Anonymous, Through Our Enemies Eyes Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America, Washington, DC. Brassey s Inc., 2002. 

Osama bin Laden issues an edict, a fatwa, for holy war against the United States and calls for attacks on U.S. military and civilian personnel around the world. He calls it a holy duty of Muslims to acquire weapons of mass destruction for the fight against Jews and Crusaders in order to terrorize the enemies of God. In well-planned and well-executed operations, al Qaeda forces attack U.S. embassies in Africa.2... 

Yusufzai, Rahimulla. 1999. Conversation with Terror, Interview with Osama bin Laden, Time, Vol. 153, No. 1, p. 38. 

This terror organization has been, and still is, the most significant one worldwide, in terms of bioterrorism, especially that it was involved, most probably, in the Sept. 2001 anthrax letter attack. In the mid-1990s, while being sheltered in Sudan, its head, Osama bin Laden, financed, in part, the construction of BW (and CW) facilities in Sudan. Later on, members of al-Qaeda were apparently trained in Iraq (by its intelligence apparatus) for BW (and other nonconventional weapons) employment. In 1998, relationship with Iraqi intelligence was established, so as to obtain... 

Further evidence that leaders of nations can be mentally ill is provided by Saddam Hussein of Iraq, Osama bin Laden of Afghanistan, and President Ahmajinadad of Iran. 

Osama bin Laden justifies violence on religious as well as political grounds. Muslims are obliged to call nonbelievers to Islam, and defend the Muslim community from attack. War against Christians and Jews is the duty of every Muslim. Osama bin Laden said years ago that he had the right to use nuclear, biological and chemical weapons in carrying out his jihad. 

Osama bin Laden and his associates have cited the requirement that nonislamic enemies of Islam must be invited to embrace Islam before they maybe legitimately attacked. Saudi cleric Sheikh Salman al-Oadah condemned bin Laden s and other al-Qaeda s methods as counter-productive and not in accordance with Islamic law. On the other hand, others have said that terrorist acts are inspired by the example of Prophet Mohanuned s struggle in the just war against the Quraysh, the pagan tribesmen of Mecca. 

Osama bin Laden has characterized suicidal terrorists as helpless and hopeless persons, who murder those who humiliate them. Their salvation lies in hatred and violence. They say 1 am not afraid to kill and die. .. 1 will not be humiliated. They do not believe they are committing sins. They believe that murder is an understandable moral reaction to societal ills. They are similar in many respects to the religious zealots in the fourteenth century Caliphate whose goal was a global theocracy. 

Maintaining the support of the people is a key aspect not only of counterinsurgency, but of counterterrorism as well." For example, the sensitivity over the potential collateral impact of a bombing operation against Osama bin Laden was heightened due to the need to avoid alienating the population and government of Pakistan." It is a sensitivity that can particniarly arise in a conflict with a non-... 

Just as sound studio equipment can be used to clean up extraneous noise from old recordings for remastering, it can also be used in forensic voice analysis, also called voiceprinting. In 2002, former audio engineer Tom Owen enhanced a foreign radio broadcast of Osama bin Laden and compared it with a 1998 interview to determine that bin Laden was still aUve. 

During an interwew given in November 2001, Osama bin Laden... 

What is also striking about the statement, however, is how far it is from providing a clear way out of our present dilemma. Suppose we accept the fact, now apparently undeniable, that it was A1 Qaeda, Osama bin Ladens organization, that was the driving force behind the September 11,2001, attacks on the Pentagon and World Trade Center. Suppose also that we believe A1 Qaeda is likely to organize, or at least attempt to organize, a CBW attack on the United States or on its citizens abroad. If we then compare the US State Department s... 

We note here that the DOD seems to have implied that Osama bin Laden, the eminence gris of a wider terrorist network made up of former and self-styled mujahideen guerilla fighters, possesses anthrax. Note the wording in the Pentagon s response to Congressional criticism of the former s anthrax vaccination program ... 

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