Osama bin Landen obituary from the economist
It has a slightly unexpected tone.
Also, here's an interesting paper called "Engineers of Jihad" exploring the phenomenon of islamic terrorists disproportionately being from engineering backgrounds www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/users/gambetta/Engineers%20of%20Jihad.pdf
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Interesting read and nicely balanced piece,
I liked "his jihads had destroyed the myth of all-conquering superpowers." I'm not certain that I agree with it completely but it is helpful as one catchphrase to think about post 9/11 America.
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Pig Bodine., Fri 18 Apr 2014, 1:45,
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Just reread that post and I can see I must be drunk.
What a prick.
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Pig Bodine., Fri 18 Apr 2014, 2:08,
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He just called you a prick Pig Bodine
are you just going to take that?
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no problem, he's got him on ignore
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the prick of misery pierced my foot on a spiiiike on, Fri 18 Apr 2014, 7:03,
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