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This Mind-Boggling Profile Of Osama Bin Laden Came Out Exactly 20 Years Ago Today

Redeem now This article from Dec. 6, 1993, by Robert Fisk of The Independent with the title "Anti-Soviet warrior puts his army on the road to peace" is stunning to consider 20 years later. Osama bin Laden, fresh off the US-backed mujahedin's victory over Russia in 1989, flew his men, materials, and money down to Sudan, ostensibly to start public works projects. When asked whether they were militant training camps, the "Saudi entrepreneur" and future leader of Al Qaeda told Fisk: "

Tennis Star Mardy Fish Says Wife Saved Him From 'Really Bad Place'

Play video content ESCAPING THE MENTAL PRISON Tennis legend Mardy Fish says he might not be alive if it weren't for his wife ... crediting her with getting him out of a really bad place with his mental health struggles. Mardy joined us on "TMZ Live" Tuesday and got real with us about some of his bouts with anxiety, which became so overwhelming at one point he pulled out at the last minute from a big U.

Herbert McCabe | Social sciences

Social sciencesObituaryHerbert McCabeTheologian, philosopher and radical supporter of ChristianityWith the death of Herbert McCabe at the age of 74, theology and philosophy in these islands have lost one of their most distinctive and radical controversial voices. He often expressed a Chestertonian bafflement that the development of, for the most part, traditional and orthodox positions should be in the slightest controversial. Born John Ignatius McCabe in Middlesbrough, the son of a teacher, he went to Manchester University to study chemistry, but switched to philosophy, much influenced by Dorothy Emmet.