A “Big Dream” attributed to Osama bin Laden
- http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=185017914885438
- http://www.afghan.nl/forum/index.php?showtopic=13439&st=36#
- http://www.somalinet.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=277607#p3220737
- http://shuratulmujahideen.blogspot.com/2011/06/dream-of-shaykh-osama-bin-laden-may.html
- http://tahir2626.blogspot.com/2011/06/karachi-friends-lucid-dream-of-shaykh.html
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Or6_Tp7IJA
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Lexington Green:
December 14th, 2011 at 3:41 pm
The legend is swallowing the facts. But that is the way in that part of the world, it seems. Osama will likely eventually become a completely mythological figure. If so, who will make use of that myth, and to what end, and directed against whom?
Charles Cameron:
December 14th, 2011 at 4:48 pm
Ha, Lex!
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“The legend is swallowing the facts..” That’s hagiography for you. But I’m afraid your questions peer farther into the sands of time (or of Arrakis, perhaps?) than my vision allows…
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I am very curious to know, though, whether any of the usual western analysts of jihadist materials have ever come across this story in Arabic, or reported before the death of UBL, or seen or made any commentary on it from an analytic standpoint…
Charles Cameron:
December 18th, 2011 at 2:26 am
FWIW, according to JM Berger — aka @intelwire, the author of Jihad Joe which I reviewed here — who monitors this sort of thing pretty intensively, he hadn’t seen this dream narrative mentioned anywhere prior to this posting.