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Originally Posted by CaptainCrunch
Its so strange, I'm reading a book called "The looming tower Al Qaeda and the road to 9/11" the start of the book lays out biographies of the major players in the move to the radical Islamic movement and Osama Bin Laden does not come across as your typical terrorist. He came across as a very devout Muslim who treated his children very well, including one that was born with fluid on the brain and mental ######ation. He treated his wives well and even let them continue to work. He lived modestly but he loved riding horses and playing soccer. He wasn't brilliant or a talented student. He was generous to a fault both to his friends and to charity.
Between this book and a few others that I've read on Bin Laden, he just doesn't come across as the monster that I almost want to see.
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Bin Laden's second in command and probably the leader of Al Quada now, Zawahiri also was that way. Grew up with an affluent family, went to medical school, became a surgeon. His family and friends say he was a happy young man who listened to western music and made jokes, etc. Both of them suddenly developed very hardline and devout religious leanings. Frustrated with the totalitarian regimes of the middle east (which only this year are beginning to ravel) they started to blame the west. Zawahiri was imprisoned by the Egyptian government for protesting. His friends say he was a changed man when he came out. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, both of the went there. Bin Laden felt he had a duty to fight the infidels and Zawahiri went to provide medical assistance and both of them came out of it as some of the most violent and radical terrorists in modern history.
Now he's the guy on the right.
