Wow... I was wondering why every time I hear the name "Joseph", I think of Stalin. Get educated people! Travel more; it might open your eyes, with any luck. The world is really much bigger than your trailer park.
THE GLOBAL ELITE
42: Osama bin Laden
Global Terrorist
Published Dec 20, 2008
From the magazine issue dated Jan 5, 2009
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The manhunt may not have been successful, but it has driven him far underground. Once a glutton for publicity, bin Laden hasn't shot a new video since September 2007, and no audio message from him has been heard since May 2008. Knowledgeable Taliban sources say "the sheik" (as acolytes call him) rarely has contact with even his top lieutenants, who are steadily being eliminated: in 2008, at least eight of the 20 most wanted Qaeda operatives died in Predator attacks along the Afghan border. The underlings who have replaced them don't match their brains or planning skills, Taliban sources say. But as the Mumbai attacks showed, bin Laden's ideology continues to inflict monstrous harm.
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COVER STORY: THE GLOBAL ELITE
The study of power is not only diverting (which Homer and Shakespeare knew), but illuminating. A biography of an ancient human impulse.
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