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...level officials) were said to have approached Sherzai and asked for amnesty, which he refused. But he promised not to pursue them as long as they left a forwarding address. They agreed and, it was said, even offered to gather intelligence on the whereabouts of Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden...
...apparently wasn't. Bishop flew the single-engine Cessna into a Tampa office building, killing only himself and leaving behind a suicide note declaring support for Osama bin Laden. Bishop had veered menacingly over Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base--from which the Afghan war is being directed--prompting new fears about security at a time when more small, lightly regulated aircraft are filling the skies. Bishop's close friend Emerson Favreau told TIME that days before the crash Bishop asked him how to locate the command center inside MacDill. Investigators think he originally targeted the base...
...morning television. Whatever taboo made grief a private matter is for now a casualty of war. Has there ever been so intimate a reckoning as this--and not just on our side? Mohamed Atta was a scrawny kid who liked chess and got upset if someone killed a bug. Osama bin Laden was devoted to his mama and liked to drive tractors and watch nature videos. We compare his pallor from video to video to assess his failing health. This is indeed the devil we know...
...eventually make the acquaintance of each one. We know who was a bride-to-be and who was a woodcarver, who clipped coupons and who had retired the week before and gone in only to clean out his desk. Everyone is a story. Every story needs telling. Osama bin Laden is right when he says that "Americans love life." But he thinks that makes us weak; he misunderstood completely, that this is what makes us strong...
...First there was Osama air freshener in Chile, then Osama bin Laden candies in Pakistan. Now one of the al Qaeda leader's 53 siblings is planning to turn the family name into a fashion label. Britain's Guardian reports that Geneva-based Yeslam Binladin, who spells his name differently from his notorious brother, had registered the name for a moderately priced fashion range for Arab and European markets long before September 11. And he has no intention of changing his plans. "The name is one of the most famous names in the world," Yeslam's lawyer was quoted...