Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. helped midwife a terrorist

Until he arrived in Afghanistan, Bin Laden's life had hardly been marked by anything extraordinary. He was born around 1957, the 17th of 57 children sired by his Yemeni father and a Saudi mother, one of Mohammed Bin Laden's many wives.
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    · 24 years ago
    Once more, this explains why the US - and others - have no intention of putting Osama on trial or presenting their "evidence" of Osama's involvement in the September 11 horrors: US Govt complicity and US foreign policy IS the evidence. They just want the man dead, period, and certainly he would be no great loss to a civilised world. Then again, neither would George W Bush and his money-grubbing, flag-waving, gun-crazy, self-serving cronies.
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