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Bin Laden - Not Who You Think He Is: Nobody who has seen it forgets the image of the man on the video: the apparently indomitable Arab veteran seated at the mouth of a cave, deriding Americans -- "the cowards of this age" -- for being "full of fear" while threatening further violence against them. But for a man of such belligerent words, Osama bin Laden is no fighter, nor of course are the inhospitable caves and mountain retreats of Afghanistan his true home. The release of the video, as well as the publication of numerous staged photographs of the terrorist leader in military fatigues, crouching on one knee and pointing his AK-47 at an unseen target, reflect his desire to build up a myth of himself as a warrior.

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