Posted on 03/19/2008 7:08:25 AM PDT by Sammy67
Omar bin Laden: Osama’s Flower-Child Son or al-Qaeda Disinformation Agent?
By Michael Scheuer
03/18/2008 - In recent months, 26-year-old Omar bin Laden—Osama bin Laden’s eldest son—has made headlines around the world for marrying a 51-year old British grandmother and sounding like a refugee from 1960s-era San Francisco, urging his father to give peace a chance. With his long braided hair, Omar has traveled across Europe and the United States dressed in a leather jacket and designer jeans, preaching reconciliation between Islam and the West. Generally, the media have treated him as a kind of eccentric—and he may well be. But given that in the Arab world blood is always far thicker than water, and that religion thickens blood ties even further, Omar bin Laden may well still be helping his father.
I just have a hard time taking anything that Scheurer writes seriously.
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