Monday, May 31, 2004

 

Oh What A Night: Osama Before Damascus

Everybody here's seen this photo before, right? It's Osama bin Laden, with 22 of his siblings, on a shopping spree in (IIRC) Oslo.

Osama's 15 years old in the picture -- so, since he's roughly my age, that would put this picture at about 1974 or 75:



Bush keeps saying Al Qaeda opposes us because "they hate freedom." Something tells me Osama understands more about "freedom" (in its genuine and ironic senses) than Bush understands about "tyranny" (in any sense).

posted by Michael 9:23 PM