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- ABC News: Osama bin Laden: a Terrorist's Profile - News stories, including a 1999 interview, plus video clips. USA.
abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/binladen_profile.html
- BBC News: Bin Laden innocent says Taleban - Includes statement by Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar that bin Laden has been neutralized by restricting his communications.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1543000/1543135.stm
- BBC News: Who is Osama Bin Laden? - Biography of bin Laden, as well as information on terroristic acts he has been speculated to be involved in.
news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_155000/155236.stm
- Bin Laden Comes Home to Roost - Opinion piece by Michael Moran of MSNBC.
www.msnbc.com/news/190144.asp
- Bin Laden Linked to Two Fundamentalist Islamic Groups in Egypt - Article by Dina el-Beblawi in the Middle East Times.
www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/reg/bin_laden_linked.htm
- Bin Laden's Family's Response to 9/11/01 Attacks - Brief statement from Osama bin Laden's family on the attacks.
www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/09/15/FFXL7FVAMRC.html
- Boston Gobe: Prime suspect: Osama bin Laden - Collection of articles, photo gallery and background information. USA.
www.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/news/binladen_profile.htm
- CBC News: Who is Osama Bin Laden? - CBC News reports on Osama Bin Laden.
www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/background/binladen_osama.html
- Centre for Research on Globalisation: Who Is Osama Bin Laden? - Michel Chossudovsky. "The history of Osama Bin Laden and the links of the Islamic 'Jihad' to the formulation of US foreign policy during the Cold War and its aftermath."
globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
- CNN In-Depth: Osama bin Laden - Information about the prime suspect. From CNN: America Under Attack.
www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/binladen.section.html
- CNN: Bin Laden, Millionaire with a Dangerous Grudge - Information on attacks bin Laden has been suspected or proved to be involved in.
www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/binladen.profile/index.html
- CNN: Persian Gulf wealth backing terrorists - "U.S. intelligence agencies are checking the activities of Osama Bin Laden, a member of a wealthy Saudi family who was stripped of his Saudi citizenship in 1994 and who finances a host of hard-line groups from Egypt to Algeria. Bin Laden has lived in Sudan for the past five years."
www.cnn.com/WORLD/9608/14/terrorism.funding/index.html
- CNN: Prosecution uses bin Laden interview in embassy bombings trial - "Osama bin Laden's historic hour-long interview with CNN was played Wednesday for the jury deciding whether four men are part of an alleged decade-long conspiracy led by the Saudi expatriate and aimed at killing Americans and destroying U.S. property abroad."
www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/02/21/embassy.bombing/index.html
- Dawn: Al-Qaqa - By Ardeshir Cowasjee. "Now, before our spooks disrupt my communications systems, I tell them that all this information has been culled from the Internet, available with one click to anyone with access." Pakistan.
www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/cowas.htm
- Guardian Unlimited: Bin Laden's Statement - Translation of the videotaped statement.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4272288,00.html
- Guardian Unlimited: Face to face with Osama - Rahimullah Yusufzai. The thoughts of a Pakistani journalist who has interviewed both Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar. UK.
www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,558187,00.html
- Guardian Unlimited: The case for the prosecution - Julian Borger in Washington and Ewen MacAskill. "Circumstantial evidence points to Bin Laden." UK.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4260850,00.html
- Guardian: Bin Laden terror network active in 34 countries - Ewen MacAskill, Richard Norton-Taylor and Julian Borger in Washington. "The enormity of the task facing the US and its allies...has been revealed in a report showing that his reach extends to 34 countries, including Britain."
www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,551780,00.html
- Guardian: Bin Laden's infrastructure of fanaticism - Jason Burke. "America's number one terrorist suspect has built up a formidable network dedicated to the Islamic fundamentalist cause."
www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,550665,00.html
- Guardian: Bin Laden: the former CIA 'client' obsessed with training pilots - Information about bin Laden and al-Qaida which emerged during the 2001 trial in New York for the bombing of two US embassies in east Africa in 1998.
www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,551037,00.html
- Guardian: Finger of suspicion pointed at Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden - Ewen MacAskill, Richard Norton-Taylor, David Pallister, Brian Whitaker and Rory McCarthy. "Intelligence sources say only one man was capable of mounting attack."
www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,551289,00.html
- Guardian: No brother of mine - Marcella Bombardieri. Interview with Osama's US-based brother Abdullah in the only interview given by a member of the Bin Laden family since September 11. UK.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4275513,00.html
- Guardian: Taliban will not sacrifice Bin Laden - Luke Harding in Kabul. "Half of my country has been destroyed by two decades of war. If the remaining half is also destroyed in trying to protect Mr Bin Laden, I'm willing for this sacrifice," Mullah Omar said.
www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,548465,00.html
- Holy Warrior Redux - An article on Osama Bin Ladin by Peter Bergen and Frank Smyth in the New Republic, reprinted after the events of 11 September 2001.
www.thenewrepublic.com/express/redux091401.html
- Independent: Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace - By Robert Fisk. "The Saudi businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale building projects in Sudan. Robert Fisk met him in Almatig." Reprinted by the Saudi Arabia Mail Archive.
menic.utexas.edu/menic/utaustin/course/oilcourse/mail/saudi/0007.html
- Israel Report: Bin Laden Nuclear Suitcases - A US-based expert on non-conventional terror believes terrorist Ossame Bin Laden has acquired portable nuclear devices. Clipped from The Jerusalem Report.
www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/isreport/septoct99/binladen.html
- License to Kill - Bernard Lewis analyses in Foreign Affairs the "Declaration of the World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders" by Usama bin Ladin.
www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/document_briefings.asp?i=19981101facomment1428.xml
- MSNBC: Bin Laden Comes Home to Roost - Article examining his CIA ties and what this has led to. Includes interactives: slide show and his al-Qaida network.
msnbc.com/news/190144.asp?cp1=1
- New York Times: One Man and a Global Web of Violence - Background information on bin Laden and his crusade to rid the Arab world of corrupt Western influences.
lib1.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/jihdbnl.htm
- New York Times: Osama bin Laden - Ongoing collection of NYT articles, plus multimedia. Registration required.
www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/international/BINLADEN-INDEX.html
- Nida'ul Islam: The New Powder Keg in The Middle East - Interview with Mujahid Usamah Bin Ladin. Includes brief biography and statement of philosophical outlook. Australia.
www.islam.org.au/articles/15/LADIN.HTM
- Observer: Bin Laden and son: the grooming of a dynasty - Jason Burke in Peshawar. About Osama Bin Laden, his son Muhammed, al-Zawahiri and other fighters. UK.
www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4262769,00.html
- Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. Helped Midwife a Terrorist - Invetigative report from the Center for Public Integrity.
www.public-i.org/excerpts_01_091301.htm
- PBS Frontline: Hunting bin Laden - Video clips and accompanying text from investigative documentaries on the suspected terrorist mastermind.
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen
- Salon Newsreal: How to turn a criminal to a hero - How the U.S. attacks on Osama bin Laden have transformed him into a local hero.
www.salon.com/news/1998/08/26news.html
- Salon Newsreal: Is bin Laden a terrorist mastermind -- or a fall guy? - Discusses the lack of hard evidence linking bin Laden with the many terrorist acts attributed to him.
www.salon.com/news/1998/08/27news.html
- Salon: Osama Bin Laden - Collection of articles. USA.
www.salon.com/directory/topics/osama_bin_laden
- Talking with Terror's Banker - ABC News interviews Osama bin Laden.
abcnews.go.com/sections/world/dailynews/terror_980609.html
- The Real bin Laden - Analysis from the New Yorker Magazine.
www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010917fr_archive07
- The Seattle Times: Osama bin Laden: from U.S. friend to foe - The Associated Press and Knight-Ridder Newspapers. To fully understand how Osama bin Laden became a world-famous suspected terrorism mastermind and an America-hater, it is necessary to see how he became an Islamic "holy warrior."
seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134341009_osama13.html
- The Washington Post: Bin Laden: a 'Master Impresario' - By Michael Dobbs. "Saudi fugitive spouts militant rhetoric, but ties to violence remain mysterious."
www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=world&contentId=A20783-2001Sep12
- The Washington Post: Osama bin Laden and His Group - Background information about the Al Qaeda group and its leader. Timeline of presumed terrorist attacks. (GIF image, 51K)
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/graphics/binladen_0913.gif
- TIME Asia: Wrath of God: Osama bin Laden lashes out against the West - Interview in which bin Laden denies direct responsibility for the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa, but reiterates his call for all Muslims to protect themselves against Western infidels.
www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990111/osama1.html
- TIME: How to Beat Bin Laden - How Osama Bin Laden operates and what it will take to defeat him
www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,174803,00.html
- Time: The Most Wanted Man In The World - Lisa Beyer. In-depth history of Osama bin-Laden. USA.
www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101010924-175116,00.html
- Village Voice: The Accidental Operative - An article by Camelia Fard and James Ridgeway about Laili Helms, a Taliban advocate, and recent attempts to turn bin Laden over to the US.
www.villagevoice.com/issues/0124/ridgeway.php
- Washington Post: CIA's Covert War on Bin Laden - The CIA has been authorized since 1998 to use covert means to disrupt terrorist operations planned abroad by Osama bin Laden. USA.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28094-2001Sep13.html
- What Does Osama bin Laden Want? - Slate's article on bin Laden's motives.
slate.msn.com/Assessment/01-09-13/Assessment.asp
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