Posted on 09/21/2001 4:21:46 AM PDT by anguish
![]() A 14-year old Osama bin Laden in Stockholm. The manager of the hotel they lived in, Christina Åkerblad, remembers him as "Cute and polite, but a bit 'different'". |
![]() 22 members (photo is cropped) of the bin Laden family in Falun, Sweden. The older brothers traveled Sweden in aircraft, the younger in limousine, while the women came behind in busses. |
Here, in front of Burens Herrekipering [gentlemen's outfitters] in Falun, stands the world's most hunted man - the terrorist leader Osama bin Laden. He looks into the camera. - Sure it is Osama. You can tell by his smile, says Christina Åkerblad. The picture was taken a sunny day in 1971. It shows 22 members of the bin Laden family on a visit in Dalarna [a county in Sweden]. Osama, 14 years old, is second from the right. - It's been over 30 years since I saw him. But it is Osama, says Christina Åkerblad to Falu Kuriren [newspaper]. They always ate in their room They visited the copper mine |
One correction to your photo captions. The photo was not taken in Stockholm, rather they are in downtown Falun.
I don't know about you, but I don't know any American youths who grew up with 21 siblings, had luggage trimmed in real gold, and never worried about parking tickets and instead just paid them. Neither can I identify with a family where the sons were indulged while the daughters lived a life of comparative austerity.
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