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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." |
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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. |
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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 |
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CNN: Bin Laden, Millionaire with a Dangerous Grudge - http://archives.cnn.com/2001/US/09/12/binladen.profile/index.html
Information on attacks bin Laden has been suspected or proved to be involved in. |
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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." |
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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. |
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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." |
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BBC News: Bin Laden innocent says Taleban - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1543135.stm
Includes statement by Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar that bin Laden has been neutralized by restricting his communications. |
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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." |
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CNN: Prosecution uses bin Laden interview in embassy bombings trial - http://archives.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." |
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Dawn: Al-Qaqa - http://www.dawn.com/weekly/cowas/20010916.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. |
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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." |
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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. |
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Guardian: No brother of mine - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4275513,00.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. |
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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. |
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Village Voice: The Accidental Operative - http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0124,ridgeway,25512,6.html
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. |
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csmonitor.com - How Osama bin Laden Got Away - http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0304/p01s03-wosc.html
A day-by-day account of how Osama bin Laden eluded the world's most powerful military machine. |
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The Washington Post: Bin Laden: a 'Master Impresario' - http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn?pagename=article&node=world&contentId=A20783-2001Sep12
By Michael Dobbs. "Saudi fugitive spouts militant rhetoric, but ties to violence remain mysterious." |
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Guardian Unlimited: Bin Laden's Statement - http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4272288,00.html
Translation of the videotaped statement. |
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The Seattle Times: Osama bin Laden: from U.S. friend to foe - http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=osama13&date=20010913
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." |
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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) |
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New York Times: Osama bin Laden - http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/26/international/BINLADEN-INDEX.html
Ongoing collection of NYT articles, plus multimedia. Free registration required to view. |
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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. |
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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. |