Time trip.(Osama bin Laden)

From: Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication | Date: April 4, 2003 | Copyright information

* Osama bin Laden (at right), Khalid Shaikh Mohammed's boss and the most wanted man in the world, was born in 1957, one of 52 children (yes, 52!) of a Saudi Arabian billionaire and his several wives. Friends from bin Laden's youth remember him not as a terrorist, but as an ordinary young man and a devout Muslim.

* In the early 1980s, bin Laden left his comfortable Saudi home for Afghanistan to take part in the war between Islamic rebels and the Soviet-installed government there. The rebels considered the Afghan government and the Soviet troops supporting it enemies of Islam. ...

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