Anita Anand

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5,690 appearances 31 recordings 3 series first heard May 2026 last heard yesterday

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Empire: World History · 391. Road To 9/11: The Rise of Osama Bin Laden (Part 3) · 30 Aug 2026 podcast

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Very different kind of life he's le leading to Salem. voice-verified

It's a PE teacher. voice-verified

I mean what you see, I guess, is that, you know, a a boy who by all accounts is, you know voice-verified

like many other boys, you know, he loved cowboy films, loved horses and and, you know, very close to his mother, suddenly morphing into somebody who was praying, who was fasting, who was finding music haram, didn't want to listen to music anymore, was against having photographs taken, that kind of sort of i imagery. voice-verified

And he marries his first wife at the age of seventeen. voice-verified

So I mean just still really a boy. voice-verified

But he is in this heart and soul. voice-verified

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And but he he's but he's gone there as a married man. voice-verified

You know, he's he's he's unlike I I'm guessing, I don't know, what the students of Jeddah were like in nineteen seventy-six, but he's he's sort of almost fully formed. voice-verified

He knows who he wants to be. voice-verified

He knows what he's you know, what he believes in and what he cares about. voice-verified

Does he find like minded people at the university, King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah? voice-verified

We ought to say how long I mean, this siege is not a you know, it it was serious, it ran on for two weeks, it uh involved hundreds of militants. voice-verified

Uh they'd been smuggling weapons inside for a while, inside coffins, and and basically had taken voice-verified

the holiest Islamic site hostage. voice-verified

So I mean it was it was a a massive deal at the time. voice-verified

And and watching this is uh you know, on the tell. voice-verified

Is a a very young 'twas still very young, just twenty two year old Osama bin Laden. voice-verified

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