My father, Osama bin LadenRead a chapter from the new book by Omar bin Laden, son of the world’s most infamous terrorist leader, Osama bin Laden, who he describes (amongst other things) as a mathematical genius who showed little affection and didn’t believe in refrigerators.
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Growing up Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden’s wife and son (well, in both cases, one of many) are set to reveal all about what life was like in the household of the world’s most wanted terrorist. The New York Post has some choice insights from the pair.
Osama in America
Has Osama bin Laden ever visited the United States? It’s a subject on which I have expended an unhealthy amount of energy, writes Steve Coll.
Osama bin Laden: Eight years and counting…
It’s been eight years since Osama bin Laden fled to the hills. Are we any closer to finding the guy?
The Gaza Strip: A Crikey Wrap
With negotiations for a ceasefire in Egypt underway, Hamas looks ready to strike even a bad deal with Israel to end the bombing of Gaza.
Ned O’Sama: the resonance of transgenerational anxiety
Remixing Ned Kelly for the age of terror rings bells, writes Jeff Sparrow.
Abdel Bari Atwan gets his visa
Late last night (our time), the Australian High Commission in London told British journalist and academic Abdel Bari Atwan that he had his visa.
Terror redefined: Osama Bin Laden quotes The Housemartins
We know that Osama Bin Laden has been wont to spice up his various broadcasts with references to Western writers, designed it seems to confuse a US public whose historical memory extends back as far as the Cola wars. But is the bearded one now getting into 80s pop? Guy Rundle investigates.
Week in words, week in numbers
We’ve taken the “most viewed” stories from The Age and The SMH websites from the last week and crunched them into this week’s tag cloud. It was all about Sydney, with a bit of the Andrew Johns drug scandal thrown in and to make up for all the inexplicable talk of church, lots of s-x.
Weekly World News: the end of an error
Publisher American Media Inc has announced it will stop printing the Weekly World News.
Tabloids sow the “Seeds of Terror”
If you use the Herald Sun’s logic, John Howard is directly linked to al-Qaeda, writes Irfan Yusuf.
