What Next For Brand Bin Laden? -- The Telegraph
The Al Qaeda leader's heir apparent, Hamza, dubbed the 'Crown Prince of Terror' escaped US bullets. So will he take over, asks Michael Burleigh.
Osama bin Laden made his will on December 14 2001 while US B-52s pulverized al-Qaeda’s Tora Bora cave complex. He urged the five wives accompanying him on “the road full of thorns and mines” not to remarry and to look after his 22 children.
As for counselling the latter, he did not recommend al-Qaeda as a future career. He wrote: “Forgive me because I have given you only a little of my time since I answered the jihad call. I have shouldered the Muslims’ concerns and their hardships, embitterment, betrayal and treachery.” This was typical Osama-speak: grandiose, plangent and self-romanticising.
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My Comment: The way things are going .... I will not be surprised if someone decides to trademark the bin Laden name.
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