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Article: If bullets fly — bin Laden flees?
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- July 29, 2006
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WASHINGTON -- Osama bin Laden talks tough, but other mujahedin
laughed at him in Afghanistan because he would get scared and bolt
when under fire, a new documentary reveals.
"When bin Laden used to hear the explosions, he used to jump. He
used to run away," his longtime friend Hutaifa Azzam says on "CNN
Presents: In the Footsteps of Bin Laden."
"I still remember that me, and my elder and younger brothers, we
used to laugh," says Azzam, the son of bin Laden's mentor in radical
Islam, Abdullah Azzam.
Abdullah Azzam and bin Laden jointly created a mujahedeen support
organization that later became al-Qaida.
Azzam was assassinated in 1989, with Hutaifa's two brothers, in a
bombing tied to ...