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Already speculation is focusing on one man who is thought likely to be behind the bombings: Osama bin Laden, a militant Muslim multimillionaire. Bin Laden's outspoken screeds against America and suspected involvement in many of the most spectacular terrorist assaults of the '90s have earned him the reputation of a virtual Dr. No whose tentacles extend to almost every secret cell around the globe. Though he has denied responsibility for some of the attacks, bin Laden is still widely considered the world's prime villain after the legendary terrorist Carlos the Jackal; the State Department last year labeled bin...
...Osama bin Laden may be everyone's prime suspect in the embassy bombings, but he doesn't act much like a fugitive. The Saudi-born millionaire runs a network of Islamic charitable and educational organizations from a well-equipped headquarters outside Jalalabad, Afghanistan. He keeps in touch with the world via computers and satellite phones and gives occasional interviews to international news organizations including TIME...
Much of the time bin Laden seems to be actively campaigning for the position of suspect No. 1. He says the people who bombed U.S. military installations in Saudi Arabia "are heroes." He promoted a fatwa, a religious decree, from clerics ordering attacks on Americans--military and civilian--around the world. And last May he called a press conference to announce the formation of an Islamic front dedicated to driving the U.S. out of the Persian Gulf area. It was the official birth of a loose coalition of Muslim radicals that has been around since the mujahedin war against...
According to a U.S. government report obtained by TIME last week, "Bin Laden has associated with the leaders of numerous Islamic terrorist groups since the Afghan war. He has trained their troops, provided safe haven and financial support and probably helps them with other organizational matters... Fighters from Egyptian, Algerian, Palestinian, Filipino and Jordanian terrorist groups have trained in his camps...
...what did those cruise missiles hit? Mostly the mountains around Khost, say the Afghans, claiming that 21 people died and 30 were injured. And what of the elusive terrorist chief, Osama Bin Laden? By all accounts, he got away unscathed. "When the U.S. began evacuating personnel from Pakistan and warning foreign aid workers to leave Afghanistan, Bin Laden's people knew something was brewing and made preparations," says TIME's New Delhi bureau chief Tim McGirk...