Usama bin Laden (Osama bin Laden)

AQIM claims to be a regional grouping affiliated to the Al Qaida led by Usama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri...

They built up a Salafi-Jihadist pan-Islamic ideology admiring Usama bin Laden and other Al Qaida leaders...

The plaintiffs allege that the attack was carried out by the Al Qaida 'terrorist group headed by' Usama bin Laden 'and was provided with material support or resources including cover sanctuary technical assistance explosive devices and training by the Defendants'...

Some pro-Bush US diplomats claimed that President Bill Clinton's government had turned down an offer from Khartoum to hand over Usama bin Laden a campaign ably exploited by the Khartoum regime...

The regime then wanted to distance itself from its Islamist expansionism its former guest Usama bin Laden and its links to attacks abroad including in Kenya Somalia and Tanzania...

Khartoum's El Shifa pharmaceuticals plant which the USA bombed in 1998 (claiming links to Usama bin Laden and chemical weapons) had a contract to export veterinary drugs to Iraq under the United Nations' aid programme...

The timing of the Maghreb bombings added to Western intelligence agencies' conviction - shared (and encouraged) by their North African counterparts - that an 'Al Qaida Central' forged by Usama bin Laden and his Egyptian colleague Ayman al Zawahiri had succeeded in merging disparate regional groups as the Islamist underground remakes itself again uniting Algerian Moroccan and Tunisian groups...

The normally cautious Saudi Arabian Al Arabiya television station's web bulletin challenged the claim noting that the language was unlike that of Usama bin Laden's organisation...

He also publicly praises Usama bin Laden comparing him to Nelson Mandela...

The argument that intelligence cooperation with Khartoum is vital in the 'war on terror' looks especially odd in the light of Al Qaida leader Usama bin Laden's 23 April pronouncements when he mirrors Khartoum's line by blaming Darfur's 'tribal' war on Western 'sedition' and calls it a prelude to a Western 'occupation' which he summons Mujahideen to go and fight...

After a lengthy association with Usama bin Laden's network Vice-President Ali Osman and Presidential Advisor (and long-time security boss) Nafi'e Ali can credibly present themselves as experts on terrorism...