Osama bin Laden's visit to L.A.

Since 9/11, the life of Osama bin Laden has been the subject of much research. And one of those digging deep was New Yorker writer Steve Coll, author of "The Bin Ladens." Now, Coll blogs about an apparent visit that the future terrorism mastermind made to Los Angeles in 1979:

The question of whether Osama bin Laden has ever visited the United States, a subject on which I have expended an unhealthy amount of energy in the course of various journalistic and biographical research, has now seemingly been settled. Osama was here for two weeks in 1979, it seems, and he visited Indiana and Los Angeles, among other places. He had a favorable encounter with an American medical doctor; he also reportedly met in Los Angeles with his spiritual mentor of the time, the Palestinian radical Abdullah Azzam. All this is according to a forthcoming book by Osama’s first wife, Najwa Bin Laden, and his son Omar Bin Laden, to be published in the autumn by St. Martin’s Press.

Comments

[Verballistic]

Hopefully some special ops will smoke that fool in Afghanistan or a Predator drone will take him out in the mountains of Pakistan, and that should permanently end his twisted celebrity status! Better a dead martyr than a live terrorist...

[Art Brown]

If he was here then he should have been exterminated.