l He was once the terror
of the western world, but
Osama Bin Laden struggled
with his domestic life
when cooped up in the
Abbottabad compound.
His son complained about
not being allowed to marry,
while his teenage daughter
bossed him around.
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He bought and devoured
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Filles, before burning it,
so “that it should not stand
in the list of books... to
disgrace them if it should
be found”.
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