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October 13, 2009
Bin Laden family values
According to his first wife, Najwa, life with Osama bin Laden was a life "where women are never allowed outside the house, 12-year-old daughters are married off to 30-year-old al Qaeda fighters, pet dogs are used for target practice and the biggest household fight is over whether Islam allows refrigerators."
One is so embarrassed when his boat goes out of control that he slips into the water so no one can see him. The other rants into a Dictaphone, spouting epithets about America and Israel, pausing only to listen to his favorite station -- the BBC -- on a small radio.
For all the talk of gassing dogs and procreation as an arms industry, the (minor) revelation this devil enjoys the BBC is my favourite. It reveals more than just the bi-polar disorder of Osama bin Laden; it reveals the bi-polar disorder of the West.
Posted by Ghost of a flea at October 13, 2009 08:13 AM
