For an evil terrorist overlord, Osama bin Laden seems to have been an awfy good neighbour.
For an evil terrorist overlord, Osama bin Laden seems to have been an awfy good neighbour.
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Tom Shields
The Americans searched every cave on the Khyber Pass and there was Osama the bloke next door in Bilal Town, the Bearsden of the scenic Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
Like many good neighbours, the bin Ladens “kept themselves to themselves”. Folk in Bilal Town said the people in the big house didn’t get out much, probably because they were religious. Or they just stayed in to enjoy the views from the back garden to the surrounding hills. There was a clue. It was said locally that the tall bearded man had moved to the tranquility of Bilal Town “due to some enmity” in Peshawar. But they were always polite when popping into the bakery for the morning rolls with nary a Kalashnikov in sight.
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Osama bin Neighbour
For an evil terrorist overlord, Osama bin Laden seems to have been an awfy good neighbour.
The Americans searched every cave on the Khyber Pass and there was Osama the bloke next door in Bilal Town, the Bearsden of the scenic Pakistani city of Abbottabad.
Like many good neighbours, the bin Ladens “kept themselves to themselves”. Folk in Bilal Town said the people in the big house didn’t get out much, probably because they were religious. Or they just stayed in to enjoy the views from the back garden to the surrounding hills. There was a clue. It was said locally that the tall bearded man had moved to the tranquility of Bilal Town “due to some enmity” in Peshawar. But they were always polite when popping into the bakery for the morning rolls with nary a Kalashnikov in sight.
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