https://freerepublic.com/tag/poetryforlosers/ en-us Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:50:25 GMT Focus Forum 15 https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087534/posts DUBAI: The elusive al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden’s literary work will be published soon by an Oxford-educated academic expert in Arabic, according to media reports. Bin Laden's recitals at wedding banquets and other feasts during the 1990s were recorded on tapes recovered from his compound in Afghanistan in 2001 after the 9/11 attacks in the US. They were studied by Professor Flagg Miller, who teaches Arabic poetry at University of California, Davis, the report said. Bin Laden is a skilled poet with clever rhymes and metres, which was one reason why many people taped him and passed recordings around,... geo.tv https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2087534/posts#comment Mon, 22 Sep 2008 08:50:25 GMT