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UPDATED 10.26.2001
Understanding Osama bin Laden

About the man

As a suspect in Sept. 11 attacks:

• Summary of evidence against Osama bin Laden, as released by British government (requires Adobe Acrobat Reader)

• Leading off the FBI's"most-wanted terrorists" list

• Video: Sec. of State Colin Powell: "All roads lead to bin Laden" / 9.17.2001/ Download the free RealAudio player /
  

Background:

• Interpol most wanted poster

• CIA unclassified fact sheet on bin Laden (3 pages)

• MSANEWS bin Laden pages

• Sept. 12 Frontline interview with Judith Miller of the N.Y. Times, who has covered bin Laden since 1993.

• Time Magazine profile
  With in-depth look at Tomahawk missile strikes against Sudan and Afghanistan following bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.

• Hunting bin Laden
  PBS Frontline special which aired following the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Excellent online resource.

• BBC: Who is Osama Bin Laden? • Bin Laden's command structure • Who are the Taleban?

• History of Threats: Osama bin Laden couples secrecy about his life and location with warnings about his actions.

Interviews:

• Greetings, America. My Name is Osama bin Laden 1999 Esquire interview with OBL in Afghanistan reads like a Tom Clancy novel

• Transcript of 1997 Osama Bin Ladin interview by Peter Arnett. The first-ever television interview with bin Laden.

• 1998 interview with bin Ladin by John Miller, ABC news (Google cache)

• Transcript of a 1999 radio broadcast including interview with bin Laden at the Terrorism Research Center.

Analysis:

• Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. Helped Midwife a Terrorist by Pakistani journalist Ahmed Rashid, who has reported from inside Afghanistan for more than two decades.
  

• Understanding Osama Bin Laden
  A Brown University Middle-East Expert Warns Against a Severe U.S. Miscalculation

Jihad (Holy war)

• Jihad links

• The Jihad Webring

Al-Qaida (terrorist network)

• From: Patterns of Global Terrorism, 2000. United States Department of State, April 2001 (concise)

• Al-Qaida warns US against attack on Osama (Google cache)

• Al-Qaida (The Base / Bin Laden) links

• Yahoo search

Terrorism

• The Political Terrorism Database

• Terrorism Research Center

• Murder by the book (8 pages)

• Terrorism manual excerpts (14 pages)

• Interrogating a bin Laden disciple (9 pages)

• Department of Justice releases names of the 19 hijackers involved in Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. / 9.14.2001 (PDF document, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )

• Havens for Terrorists: The Middle East has traditionally been a hot spot for terrorism. So much so that five nations — Libya, Sudan, Syria, Iraq and Iran — are on a government-recognized list of states that sponsor terrorism to attain political goals.

Why do they hate America?

• Comment: They can't see why they are hated — Guardian.uk

• Whoever attacked the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, Muslims now face the consequences
  Sept. 16 (sic), 2001 Crescent International editorial