Image: Osama Bin Laden holds a Kalashnikov rifle in Tora Bora, a mountainous region of Afghanistan, in November 1996. The Al Qaeda leader spent years developing a network of tunnels and caves in the area
Daily Mail: Inside Bin Laden's bolt-hole: Rare photos show grinning terrorist at his Tora Bora hideout pre 9/11 - high in the Afghan mountains guarded by children wielding Kalashnikovs
* Images taken by journalist Abdel Barri Atwan in 1996 released in trial of Al Qaeda lieutenant Khaled al-Fawwaz
* Shows 9/11 mastermind's compound in mountainous region of Tora Bora, including a two-bedroom mud hut
* Developed an intricate network of caves and tunnels to avoid detection and acted as protection during air strikes
* Reports suggest he would go on day-long hikes across the mountains surrounded by bodyguards
* He fled the area near the Pakistan border on horse back in 2001 when US forces closed in on him
Rare photos have emerged of the primitive and isolated compound Osama Bin Laden lived in until a Western bombing campaign forced him to flee.
The images resurfaced last month during the terrorism conspiracy trial in New York of Al Qaeda lieutenant Khaled al-Fawwaz, a communications conduit for the terrorist organisation in London in the mid-1990s.
They were taken by Palestinian journalist Abdel Barri Atwan, who was invited to the hideout in 1996 as part of Bin Laden's ploy to spread his message of hate to the Western world.
The 9/11 mastermind had declared war on America and planned a media campaign to garner international attention.
WNU Editor: You know that the U.S. has even more pictures .... probably thousands of more pictures of Osama Bin Laden .... but to this day for reasons of their own they are still reluctant to publish them.
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