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Osama bin Laden spotted in Beijing

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. ...full story at Shanghaiist

from Shanghaiist on Wed, Jan 28 2009

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