In social networks you can find a photo in which, according to the signature, the future terrorist is depicted during training in the UK. We checked the authenticity of the picture and the information accompanying it.
The picture is widely represented in popular publics in VKontakte, specializing in historical photographs. HistoryPorn community (1.4 million subscribers) accompanies The photo with the signature "Osama Bin Laden (right) with friends in Oxford, 1971." Similar publications can be found in public World of History (2 million subscribers), "Moments of history" (1.6 million), "Secrets of history" (1.4 million) and many others. The picture also appeared in Facebook, Twitter, Livejournal and other social networks.
For the first time, this photograph became known to the public shortly after the capture of aircraft and attacks At the World Trade Center and Pentagon. In October 2001 BBC And The Telegraph It was reported that the pictures belong to an unnamed Spaniard and were published in one of the local newspapers. According to the woman, the photo depicts 14-year-old Usama bin Laden along with two brothers and two Spanish girls-teenagers attended language courses in Oxford together. According to the owner of the pictures, she installed the date and time of shooting according to the diary records made then.
Nevertheless, the identification of the young man depicted in the picture on the right for a long time remained controversial, because one certificate was not enough for this. The BBC note reported that later photographs of a picnic and boat walks will be published, which also captured the future terrorist No. 1, but we could not find them in the open access. The owner of the pictures told Spanish journalists that she recognized a friend from childhood thanks to other photographs that appeared in the press earlier. She probably meant messages About photographs of the entire large family of Bin Laden, made in Sweden also in the early 1970s. In 2001, Bin Ladena was identified by journalist Hans Lindvist, who had an interview with the head of the family-a large Saudi businessman 30 years earlier. The family went to rest to the south of Sweden at least twice, and the boys in two pictures are really very similar.
In the spring of 2011, American military Killed Bin Ladena in his shelter in Pakistan. Numerous documents were seized from there, including the diary of the terrorist - their content introduced public six years later. These records can serve indirect evidence that both photographs of young bin Ladena published in 2001 are genuine, because in the diary a terrorist recalls two trips to Europe, which he made in adolescence. The first of them is described very scarce: at 13, he went to the west in order to treat (which one and which country is not specified). Next year, he studied in the UK for ten weeks. Although the author does not specify exactly where the training was held, 14 years old bin Ladenu Filled In 1971 - precisely then, it was statement that photographs in Oxford were taken. He also studied English, and at a very serious level. Lecturer of an elite school in Jidd I remembered Young Usam as a very modest student who was afraid to make mistakes when talking in a foreign language.
Most likely, the truth
- BBC. Bin Laden's Oxford Days
- The New Yorker. Young Osama
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