ONCE UPON A TIME, OSAMA BIN LADEN WAS A TEENAGER IN BELLBOTTOMS

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This photo of the late Osama bin Laden just arrived in an email and it’s fascinating for historical and other reasons. Osama is the happy looking young guy in front wearing the green sweater and hat. It’s 1971, he’s 14 years old, and he and all his friends are living it up in the high style fashions of the era. Posed around a PINK car no less! Note that none of the girls have their faces or heads covered. Three years later bin Laden was married for the first time.

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  1. A bad seed….and a psychopathic murderer…I am very upset that the death photos of Bin Laden were not released to Westerners by this Administration.

  2. That’s because they didn’t kill him.
    Why would you kill the single largest source of intel in the war on terror.
    But anyway, shhh! Just google gossip sites and keep it dumb.
    Honestly…those Kardashians….

  3. Really, Patrick? I just spent the evening with one of your kind, and I had a great brain massage.

  4. He’s a middle child with 56 siblings, probably those in the photos. His family is very wealthy, having built the roads in his homeland.

  5. OBL is as dead as JFK, RFK and MLK. The tragedy in the raids is that American soldiers are allowed to carry cameras and take pictures which then are spread over the net and become part of a book. Pied Piper seems to want to lead his followers into the hills to avoid Big Brother.

    There is a very good book on the bin Laden family by Steve Coll which I suggest people read. The family was very successful because of the fathers hard work and then connections with the Royal family.

    Most Saudi’s dress western as soon as they leave the country.

  6. Oh fer sure, Strom. The readers of JCH can’t wait to read a very informative book on the house of Saud and the very successful Bin Laden family.
    No doubt Bin Laden is dead now!
    But if you believe they didn’t interrogate the single greatest intelligence asset in the war on terror and just hustled his shot up carcass out to a deep sea dump spot{nuthin to see here folks} then you should have very little faith in Americas resolve for a win in the war against Islamic fundamentalist terror.
    Where’s the missing Malaysian airliner, Strom? What’s the party line on that one? You buying that too?
    What do air forces do to rogue passenger airliners post 911?
    Disregard them and wait for them to fly into…oh, say, something like the Petronas Towers?
    No one is leading people into the hills. Just exercising critical thought.
    No you go and do whatever it is you do like ranting about the sex lives of various black people. Laughing out loud in your effing face!

  7. By Patrick
    On July 3, 2014 at

    “That’s because they didn’t kill him.”

    Poor Pied Piper. Maybe you & Rob Ford can think up a few more interesting questions!

  8. hey Strom, how was the lesbian bar scene in Kabul ? you big liar ..

  9. Jealous little 9980, it gets in such a frenzy when Strom talks about a few of his travels.

    Cheer up, I know it can’t see much from the walls of the call center but maybe next vacation it can at least ask that its next Rainbow Cruise to Nowhere stop in Canada!

  10. Poor Pied Piper, have a cup of blueberries! It will help you to comment on the thread and not other posters.

  11. Oh? I thought I did comment on the subject matter in the thread?
    But then somebody attacked me for my comment. Mean girl sophomoric tactics don’t work with adults.
    So you don’t get your pull-ups in a twist, dearie.
    Save the passive aggressive for the shrinking violet types.

  12. There is a very good book on the bin Laden family by Steve Coll which I suggest people read. The family was very successful because of the father’s hard work and connections with the Royal family.

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