Osama bin Laden as SF fan

[Bill Stewart]

At 02:21 PM 10/31/2001 -0500, Duncan Frissell wrote:
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>http://www.jerrykindall.com/2001/october.asp
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>Apparently, "al-Qaeda"  means "the base." Which will almost certainly
>lead to an obnoxious rash of "al your Qaeda are belong to U.S." sightings.

All your Berts are belong to us?


>The name came into use when Osama used his cash to bankroll a series of
>bases in Pakistan to assist fighters on their way Afghanistan to fight the
>Commies.  He used the opportunity to collect a rather valuable direct
>marketing list of somme 40,000 names and addresses of dedicated Musselman
>Warriors for future use.  Wonder what dbase software he uses?

PROMIS from Inslaw?