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Article: Bin Ladin: the man who would be Mahdi.(Osama Bin Ladin; Mahdi, leader of the cleansing forces before armageddon)
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- Middle East Quarterly
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- March 22, 2002
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Terrorists are media celebrities par excellence, and Usama bin Ladin has become the most celebrated one of all time. But what if he is not satisfied with the transient fame conferred by the media and his status as darling of those Muslims who resent and revile the West? What if bin Ladin has much more grandiose aspirations: to stride upon the stage not only of history, but of eschatology, as the Mahdi, the "Rightly-guided One," whose coming is part of the Islamic concept of the end of days?
If he survives, could this be a way he might capitalize on his successful defiance of the world's greatest superpower? Some Western commentators have already observed that bin ...
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Transcript: bin Ladin's Money
NPR Weekend All Things Considered;
August 22, 1998 ;
700+ words
... ... money, lots of it, to build the network bin Ladin has. We will do our best to see that ... individuals and what he described as the bin Ladin terrorist group. On Thursday, U.S ... base camp in Afghanistan run by Osama bin Ladin, the exiled Saudi Arabian millionaire ...
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