Osama bin Laden wrote when he was 14 that the British “were a society different from ours” MAZHAR ALI KHAN/APA trip to the UK as a teenager including visits to Shakespeare’s birthplace convinced Osama bin Laden that Britain was a society of loose morals and appears to have stoked the terrorist leader’s contempt for the West, it emerged last night. Yesterday the CIA released nearly half a million documents seized from the compound in Pakistan where Bin Laden, the instigator of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, was killed in 2011. The documents showed that the al-Qaeda chief had been tracking press reports in 2007 that Prince Harry would be serving in the military in Iraq. The 228-page journal included an account of a trip to Britain when Bin Laden was about 14. He appears to have stayed in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Source: The Times November 02, 2017 00:11 UTC