Richard Miniter
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1,766 appearances
3 recordings
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 11 Sep
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Harsh environment.
Osama thrived.
He loved the wild places.
He loved capturing and killing animals.
Uh and while everyone else complained about the lack of air conditioning, of cold water and so on, everyone wanted to take a shower or a bath.
He thrived and he got his father's approval there.
From those two ingredients, once you had the radical uh thinking of Abdullah Azam, Bin Laden knew he had to get to Afghanistan and create an opportunity for himself because
Tens of thousands of radicals were leaving jails, leaving mosques, and going to Afghanistan.
So he created something initially called Al-Qaeda Suba, the secure base.
And it was just a place where you could, as a fighter, a jihadi fighter against the Soviets, store your things, your watch, your wallet, and so on.
And they began a paper database.
So uh
Base can also mean database in in this form in this uh form of garbage.
Um and he they made a database of all of the fighters that came through and whose belongings were stored.
Often they kept passports.
These passports would resurface by the way on nine eleven.
So some of the people believed to have died in the nineteen eighties in Afghanistan, their passports reappear, uh held perhaps by other people.
Um
when they apply for visas to come to the United States and go to flight school and begin their more than a year of operations inside the United States before the nine eleven attacks.
So our uh so bin Laden ends up as a well known figure in nineteen eighties Afghanistan.
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