[TomGuy]

By the way, I caught most of CNN's "Footsteps of Bin Laden" last night, and it was excellent. I'd never known about his past or how he came to be what he is now. No rational person can watch it and come away believing that the U.S. is to blame for the rise of Islamofascism.

I missed that, but I saw a brief interview with some author on FoxNews yesterday. He wrote a book about bin Laden. Per him, OBL doesn't have kidney problems, does have back problems, is basically a nice, but misunderstood man, is only worth about $7 million from the family business, etc.

The author was almost with kneepads in his lauding bin Laden. News-readerette Paige Hopkins soon cut him off and went to break.

[Valin]

I'm in the middle of reading "The Looming Tower" by Lawrence Wright. I'm not a big fan of "MUST READ", but for anyone intrested in who what where & hen this book is it.
Chock full of facts (heavily footnoted) plus the guy knows how to write, it is a page turner.
(one mans opinion, freely given and worth almost that much)