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Many ISI men harbor bitterness too, over the way the U.S. built them up as a useful tool in the Afghan war against the Soviet Union, then turned away when the war ended. A sizable portion of ISI rank and file embraces Islamic fundamentalism, and even if the top brass promise help, spooks on the ground may thwart them by withholding information or spreading disinformation. "The ISI has excellent intelligence about bin Laden," says a former Defense specialist on the region. "I find it doubtful they will give...
...Sept. 11 investigation - and "a couple hundred" more had been arrested overseas with FBI help. One of them, Algerian pilot Lotfi Raissi, arrested in London, has been charged with failing to report his previous knee surgery when applying for a pilot's license. "We have to use every tool available to us," says a top Justice Department official. "That includes detaining people, looking for violations, being aggressive...
...video was shot during daylight, and many believe it was taken early in the day of October 7th, before the U.S.-led attacks on Afghanistan began. The video, which shows bin Laden praising God for the destruction at the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, is essentially a propaganda tool for bin Laden and his followers. In it, bin Laden tells viewers the U.S. war against him is a war against Islam, and emphasizes the past "crimes" committed against the Arab world by Western governments...
Osama has four wives and more than 10 children. He married his first wife, a Syrian girl, when he was 17. More recently he has used marriage as a strategic tool. He married one of his daughters to Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar. Bin Laden's eldest son, Mohammed, wed the daughter of bin Laden lieutenant Mohammed Atef. The 19-year-old bin Laden is reportedly learning his father's business by guarding Osama's tent at night with...
...tried and given the death sentence for this murderous act, but the government pardoned her, according to journalist and author Don Oberdorfer, “on grounds that she was merely a brainwashed tool of the real culprits, the leaders of North Korea.” More caustically, another journalist wrote, “‘Virgin bomber’ Kim Hyon-hui fluttered her eyelashes, said she was ever so sorry, wrote a best-seller, and is now a millionaire in Seoul. That’s one lucky mass murderer.” The pardon-vs.-punishment debate...