Steve Coll
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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Reluctantly, they come to the conclusion that the Americans are going to make this so painful if they don't act against bin Laden that they tell him, we're going to have to expel you, you're going to have to go.
And they give him notice, basically.
A lot of bad things happen to him at that point.
His family breaks up.
uh some of his wives and some of his sons informed that the next stop is Afghanistan in Jalalabad with uncertain headquarters, say, I'm sorry.
I mean, you know, we love you, Dad.
Um, you're the you're the best, but I'm not going to Afghanistan.
Um and they went back to Jeddah uh and some of those sons said rejoined the family business.
It's all relative, but in Khartoum they had money, they had horses, they had air conditioning, they had their own bedrooms, they were in charge of their own daily destiny, they had businesses that the boys could work in, they had schools um of a traditional type, and Jalalabad was in a war.
Um and the Taliban were fighting and shooting against the people who controlled.
Jalalabad and it wasn't clear where they would live.
is one stage much wilder.
It's back to the jihad, basically, and and but right on the front lines of it.
Yes.
It's based in Langley at CIA headquarters, and it's formed in recognition that he is a kind of global problem, not just a country problem.
And for younger uh listeners
They may not think of the 1990s as a disconnected age, but it it's really the beginning of globalization in technology and in terrorism.
And Osama's an innovator.
He's using fax machines to communicate underground to to Saudi Arabia.
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