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...rooms like a rock star's and dream of becoming avenging Islamic warriors. The girls moon over Osama's dark, soulful eyes and dream of marrying him. Apparently, it's a wish shared by at least one father. A few months before the Sept. 11 attacks, a man from Yemen brought his beautiful daughter all the way to Afghanistan to marry the World's Most Wanted Terrorist. Bin Laden happily obliged, though the honeymoon options in Afghanistan must've been pretty limited: "The cave on the left, or the one on the right, dear...
Osama's father Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden emigrated from Yemen to Saudi Arabia as a bricklayer and slowly built the largest Saudi construction firm. His secret was winning the trust of the Saudi King, Abdel Aziz ibn Saud, who reigned from 1932 to 1953. The King asked bin Laden to rebuild the sacred city of Mecca, and ever since, the bin Ladens have been responsible for construction in Mecca and Medina. After Mohammed's death in a plane crash in 1967, his sons built Saudi BinLaden Group into a multibillion-dollar enterprise. Recent ventures include building a freeway around...
...hijackers followed the same m.o. in Germany, where the terror plot may have been nurtured at two universities in Hamburg, which three of the four terror team leaders attended. On Friday German police issued arrest warrants for two suspects in connection with the attacks. Ramzi Binalshibh, from Yemen, and Said Bahaji, who was born in Germany, are charged with at least 5,000 counts of murder, suggesting a role in the Sept. 11 attacks. The men were both roommates of Atta...
...retired from the FBI in August, John O'Neill, 49, was America's pit bull on terrorism. As head of the bureau's national-security operations in New York City, he oversaw investigations into the 1998 embassy bombings in Africa and the 2000 attack on the U.S.S. Cole in Yemen, both believed to be the work of groups linked to Osama bin Laden. Two weeks ago, O'Neill began a new job: chief of security at the World Trade Center...
...Yemenite government nicknamed O'Neill "Rambo." It did not use the name fondly. O'Neill didn't just request access and information from officials in Yemen; he demanded them. He insisted that his agents be allowed to carry automatic rifles for protection. Ultimately, O'Neill was barred from Yemen by U.S. Ambassador Barbara Bodine for irritating his hosts. His agents, however, were grateful for his unwavering intransigence. Said an admirer: "O'Neill has been thrown out of better places than that...