Friday, October 19, 2001
Some excerpts from the Osama Dossier by Ben Macintyre, published in The Times, UK
"There is not one Osama bin Laden on the loose in the world, but two. The first is the one he has invented for himself and his followers, the thoroughbred Holy Warrior for Islam, the battle-hardened, soft-voiced guerrilla who has become an idol to thousands, perhaps by now millions, of angry Muslims. The other is the terrorist mastermind of Western creation, the mult-millionaire, semi-lunatic trainer of suicidal killers, an icon of fear and horror. One is larger than life, the other larger than death."
"There are many gaps, passages of his life when the trail goes cold, but he has left his spore, the clues to his life, some intentional and some inadvertent, and he can be found."
"There is not one Osama bin Laden on the loose in the world, but two. The first is the one he has invented for himself and his followers, the thoroughbred Holy Warrior for Islam, the battle-hardened, soft-voiced guerrilla who has become an idol to thousands, perhaps by now millions, of angry Muslims. The other is the terrorist mastermind of Western creation, the mult-millionaire, semi-lunatic trainer of suicidal killers, an icon of fear and horror. One is larger than life, the other larger than death."
"There are many gaps, passages of his life when the trail goes cold, but he has left his spore, the clues to his life, some intentional and some inadvertent, and he can be found."
# posted by Ashok @ 1:33 AM 
