An Untouchable Pariah

Osama bin Laden is bigger than his legend. And more complex than a puzzle.

September 25, 2001

Mounting a horse he slips out of the mountains around Kandahar in Afghanistan. Does he go on to the Hindu Kush, his new base on the northwestern side of Afghanistan? Or does he go over the border, and if so where does he travel on to? No one knows. All is mere speculation. All is just talk. The man is the world's most wanted figure, Saudi dissident and alleged terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden.

It is fairly safe to say that wherever he wen

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