[nicollo]

Your #39: "Bin Laden comes from an enormously wealthy family... There are also pictures of him in London in his teens so he has at least some first-hand knowledge of the West"

Bib Laden suffers from new-money angst. In Saudi Arabia he was already a social outcast to whom the entrances his father's cash bought were brick walls. If he was ever in a London party he was probably handed coats and told to bring another Beefeaters as he stood around staring at the floor.

He has all of Hitler's inferiority complex.

[liberallarry]

I'd love to know more about this. Can you cite any sources? The picture I saw was of him, age 14, posed in a London street with his family. That's all I know about his exposure to the West.