Steve Coll
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259 appearances
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1 series
first heard Sep 2026
last heard 2 Sep
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And he was funding the payroll.
And he could communicate his ideas both in Sudan, but also increasingly internationally using fax machines and other techniques.
There's some accounts along those lines.
But I think he was generally a doting father, kind of a softie.
He spent a lot of time um with his kids.
He did inherit his father's idea that was, you know, the children should be brought up to endure hardship and that they should be um hard workers.
And and also he combined that with this uh
Adapted Wahhabi idea that one should live as if one was in the seventh century.
So try to eschew, uh be able to eschew the comforts of modern technology.
Now, Osama did not live that creed.
He was a gadget guy, and he had an interest in video cameras and you know, he not just for communicating political messages.
But for weddings and all kinds of things.
He was a he was a guy who was who was after his own older brother Saloma, used to come back from New York with literally a private jet full of stuff he'd bought on 47th Street, all the latest of New York, the electronic center, like all the latest gadgets, and then just hand them out to his brothers.
And so that's Osama.
He's living his best life.
He's got his family, he's got comfortable compounds.
He's got horses and he's got freedom to say what he wants.
Yes.
And he's and he's building a following.
He's attracted Egyptians, Sudanese, you know, Arab volunteers from the Maghreb, Africans.
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