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Osama Bin Laden Fears Nothing

Except, of course, China.... ...full story at Letters from China

from Letters from China on Thu, Jan 18 2007

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08 Mar 08 visit Osama bin Laden in Tibet  »  YouTube videoOsama bin Laden is dead. The news first came from sources in Afghanistan and Pakistan almost six months ago: the fugitive died in December [2001] and was buried in the mountains of southeast Afghanistan. Pakistan's president, Pervez Musharraf, echoed the...
28 Jan 09 visit Osama bin Laden spotted in Beijing  »  Shanghaiist Michael Manning of The Opposite End of China finds Osama bin Laden hawking face masks at a Chinese New Year fair at Ditan Park Temple yesterday.
28 Jan 09 visit I found Osama bin Laden.  »  Opposite End of China And in Beijing, no less... I shot this at the Ditan Park Temple Fair yesterday, where I found Osama selling rubber masks and Ox-themed headgear to the masses. The fair was a total zoo, but as this is my first Lunar New Year in Beijing, I had to check...
31 Oct 08 visit China: Open for Osama’s Business  »  Biz Cult Osama bin Laden has been pursued doggedly in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and well – that’s just about it. He won’t come out of hiding from impenetrable tribal areas for obvious reasons – the U.S. is hell bent on killing him. It’s not difficult to w...
05 Dec 08 visit Al-Qaeda in China  »  Opposite End of China The Jamestown Foundation has added a new chapter in its never-ending quest to figure out anything solid on organized Uyghur terrorism: On November 16, a self-proclaimed al-Qaeda spokesman named Muhammad Uighuri claimed that Osama bin Laden has appointed a...
16 Apr 09 visit Mao Condoms  »  Peking Duck Celebrities and condoms seem to go together, from Bill and Monica to the Olympic fuwa. So when I first saw a tweet about condoms bearing a likeness to Osama Bin Laden, Mao Zedong and Adolf Hitler I didn’t think it was anything worth blogging about....

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