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Sep. 20th, 2001 09:44 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
khaosworksThe article in the newspaper was pretty much a non-event. I can't give you guys a link to it because it's not in the on-line edition, but they only quoted me saying that it was all a meaningless coincidence. No biggie. Guess either the reporter or his editor didn't want to go for the pop culture angle.
Watched an edition of Panorama on BBC World last night, a profile on Osama Bin Laden. It was a welcome change from wallowing in the grief and carnage of last week that's still going on - a well-researched profile on the man himself, with only as much coverage of 9/11 as was necessary. Most of it concentrated on his background, his training as a guerilla and his connections to various terrorist actions around the world. It's more or less persuaded me at this point that even if it turns out that he's not behind the 9/11 event. Osama Bin Laden needs to be taken out, just to deprive the various terrorist cells he uses as proxies a rallying point. However, as one of the interviewees, Dr Saad Al Fagih, pointed out, eliminate Bin Laden in Afghanistan, and it's still not over - the people that did it are all outside Afghanistan. It's going to be a long haul.
Watched an edition of Panorama on BBC World last night, a profile on Osama Bin Laden. It was a welcome change from wallowing in the grief and carnage of last week that's still going on - a well-researched profile on the man himself, with only as much coverage of 9/11 as was necessary. Most of it concentrated on his background, his training as a guerilla and his connections to various terrorist actions around the world. It's more or less persuaded me at this point that even if it turns out that he's not behind the 9/11 event. Osama Bin Laden needs to be taken out, just to deprive the various terrorist cells he uses as proxies a rallying point. However, as one of the interviewees, Dr Saad Al Fagih, pointed out, eliminate Bin Laden in Afghanistan, and it's still not over - the people that did it are all outside Afghanistan. It's going to be a long haul.
