ARAB-US RELATIONS - Feb. 13 - Bin Laden's Complex Image.(Brief Article)

From: APS Diplomat Recorder | Date: February 17, 2001 | Copyright information

In a heavily guarded federal courtroom in New York, Osama Bin Laden's former aide Jamal Ahmad Fadl paints a portrait of the Saudi fugitive as an organisation man beset with responsibilities ranging from real-estate management to medical imbursements. Running his militant group Al Qaida demands a broad range of skills befitting top executives of major corporations. There are personnel files to maintain, with false names to keep sorted; diverse subsidiary businesses to run in half a dozen countries; guest houses and farms to oversee; training exercises to organise and conduct; ...

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