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CNN In-Depth: Osama bin Laden - http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/trade.center/binladen.section.html
Information about the prime suspect. From CNN: America Under Attack.
  Salon: Osama Bin Laden - http://www.salon.com/directory/topics/osama_bin_laden/
Collection of articles. USA.
  CNN: Bin Laden, Millionaire with a Dangerous Grudge - http://www.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/binladen.profile/index.html
Information on attacks bin Laden has been suspected or proved to be involved in.
  Dawn: Al-Qaqa - http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/cowas.htm
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.
  PBS Frontline: Hunting bin Laden - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/
Video clips and accompanying text from investigative documentaries on the suspected terrorist mastermind.
  ABC News: Osama bin Laden: a Terrorist's Profile - http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/DailyNews/binladen_profile.html
News stories, including a 1999 interview, plus video clips. USA.
  BBC News: Who is Osama Bin Laden? - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_155000/155236.stm
Biography of bin Laden, as well as information on terroristic acts he has been speculated to be involved in.
  TIME: How to Beat Bin Laden - http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,174803,00.html
How Osama Bin Laden operates and what it will take to defeat him
  Bin Laden Comes Home to Roost - http://www.msnbc.com/news/190144.asp
Opinion piece by Michael Moran of MSNBC.
  MSNBC: Bin Laden Comes Home to Roost - http://msnbc.com/news/190144.asp?cp1=1
Article examining his CIA ties and what this has led to. Includes interactives: slide show and his al-Qaida network.
  Nida'ul Islam: The New Powder Keg in The Middle East - http://www.islam.org.au/articles/15/LADIN.HTM
Interview with Mujahid Usamah Bin Ladin. Includes brief biography and statement of philosophical outlook. Australia.
  Holy Warrior Redux - http://www.thenewrepublic.com/express/redux091401.html
An article on Osama Bin Ladin by Peter Bergen and Frank Smyth in the New Republic, reprinted after the events of 11 September 2001.
  Salon Newsreal: Is bin Laden a terrorist mastermind -- or a fall guy? - http://www.salon.com/news/1998/08/27news.html
Discusses the lack of hard evidence linking bin Laden with the many terrorist acts attributed to him.
  Boston Gobe: Prime suspect: Osama bin Laden - http://www.boston.com/news/packages/underattack/news/binladen_profile.htm
Collection of articles, photo gallery and background information. USA.
  Guardian: Bin Laden: the former CIA 'client' obsessed with training pilots - http://www.guardian.co.uk/wtccrash/story/0,1300,551037,00.html
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.
  Osama Bin Laden: How the U.S. Helped Midwife a Terrorist - http://www.public-i.org/excerpts_01_091301.htm
Invetigative report from the Center for Public Integrity.
  Village Voice: The Accidental Operative - http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0124/ridgeway.php
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.
  Israel Report: Bin Laden Nuclear Suitcases - http://www.cdn-friends-icej.ca/isreport/septoct99/binladen.html
A US-based expert on non-conventional terror believes terrorist Ossame Bin Laden has acquired portable nuclear devices. Clipped from The Jerusalem Report.
  Centre for Research on Globalisation: Who Is Osama Bin Laden? - http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO109C.html
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."
  Talking with Terror's Banker - http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/dailynews/terror_980609.html
ABC News interviews Osama bin Laden.
  BBC News: Bin Laden innocent says Taleban - http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_1543000/1543135.stm
Includes statement by Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar that bin Laden has been neutralized by restricting his communications.
  Dallas Morning News: Who is Osama bin Laden? - http://www.dallasnews.com/attack_on_america/osamabinladen/index_osama.html
Stories, history, the Taliban, FBI poster and extensive links.
  Independent: Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace - http://menic.utexas.edu/menic/utaustin/course/oilcourse/mail/saudi/0007.html
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.
  CBC News: Who is Osama Bin Laden? - http://www.cbc.ca/news/indepth/background/binladen_osama.html
CBC News reports on Osama Bin Laden.
  CNN: Prosecution uses bin Laden interview in embassy bombings trial - http://www.cnn.com/2001/LAW/02/21/embassy.bombing/index.html
"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."
  Salon Newsreal: How to turn a criminal to a hero - http://www.salon.com/news/1998/08/26news.html
How the U.S. attacks on Osama bin Laden have transformed him into a local hero.
  New York Times: One Man and a Global Web of Violence - http://lib1.library.cornell.edu/colldev/mideast/jihdbnl.htm
Background information on bin Laden and his crusade to rid the Arab world of corrupt Western influences.
  Bin Laden's Family's Response to 9/11/01 Attacks - http://www.smh.com.au/breaking/2001/09/15/FFXL7FVAMRC.html
Brief statement from Osama bin Laden's family on the attacks.
  TIME Asia: Wrath of God: Osama bin Laden lashes out against the West - http://www.time.com/time/asia/asia/magazine/1999/990111/osama1.html
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.
  Time: The Most Wanted Man In The World - http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1101010924-175116,00.html
Lisa Beyer. In-depth history of Osama bin-Laden. USA.
  New York Times: Osama bin Laden - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/international/BINLADEN-INDEX.html
Ongoing collection of NYT articles, plus multimedia. Registration required.
  Bin Laden Linked to Two Fundamentalist Islamic Groups in Egypt - http://www.metimes.com/2K1/issue2001-37/reg/bin_laden_linked.htm
Article by Dina el-Beblawi in the Middle East Times.
  CNN: Persian Gulf wealth backing terrorists - http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/9608/14/terrorism.funding/index.html
"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."
  The Seattle Times: Osama bin Laden: from U.S. friend to foe - http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/134341009_osama13.html
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."
  Guardian Unlimited: Bin Laden's Statement - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4272288,00.html
Translation of the videotaped statement.
  Observer: Bin Laden and son: the grooming of a dynasty - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4262769,00.html
Jason Burke in Peshawar. About Osama Bin Laden, his son Muhammed, al-Zawahiri and other fighters. UK.
  Guardian Unlimited: The case for the prosecution - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4260850,00.html
Julian Borger in Washington and Ewen MacAskill. "Circumstantial evidence points to Bin Laden." UK.
  Guardian: No brother of mine - http://www.guardian.co.uk/waronterror/story/0,1361,568151,00.html
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.
  Guardian: Bin Laden terror network active in 34 countries - http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,551780,00.html
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."
  Old Strategies Shaken to Core - http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-000074617sep16.column
The LA Times reports that Clinton considered staging a commando raid against Osama bin Laden in 1998.
  The Washington Post: Bin Laden: a 'Master Impresario' - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/world/A20783-2001Sep12.html
By Michael Dobbs. "Saudi fugitive spouts militant rhetoric, but ties to violence remain mysterious."
  The Washington Post: Osama bin Laden and His Group - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/graphics/binladen_0913.gif
Background information about the Al Qaeda group and its leader. Timeline of presumed terrorist attacks. (GIF image, 51K)
  Guardian Unlimited: Face to face with Osama - http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,558187,00.html
Rahimullah Yusufzai. The thoughts of a Pakistani journalist who has interviewed both Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar. UK.
  Guardian: Bin Laden's infrastructure of fanaticism - http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,550665,00.html
Jason Burke. "America's number one terrorist suspect has built up a formidable network dedicated to the Islamic fundamentalist cause."
  Guardian: Finger of suspicion pointed at Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden - http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,551289,00.html
Ewen MacAskill, Richard Norton-Taylor, David Pallister, Brian Whitaker and Rory McCarthy. "Intelligence sources say only one man was capable of mounting attack."
  Guardian: Taliban will not sacrifice Bin Laden - http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,548465,00.html
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.
  The Real bin Laden - http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010917fr_archive07
Analysis from the New Yorker Magazine.
  What Does Osama bin Laden Want? - http://slate.msn.com/Assessment/01-09-13/Assessment.asp
Slate's article on bin Laden's motives.
  Washington Post: CIA's Covert War on Bin Laden - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28094-2001Sep13.html
The CIA has been authorized since 1998 to use covert means to disrupt terrorist operations planned abroad by Osama bin Laden. USA.
  License to Kill - http://www.foreignaffairs.org/Search/document_briefings.asp?i=19981101facomment1428.xml
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.
  Time Canada: A traitor's tale - http://www.canoe.ca/TimeCanada0102/19_time26.html
By Johanna McGeary. "One man sold out Osama bin Laden, and now reveals his chilling insights." Canada.
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