Osama the Icon

The global cult of the terrorist mastermind.

MAY 2, 2011

Bin Laden became a symbol to people as farway as Bangkok, Thailand (left) and Jakarta, Indonesia (right) and they showed it through a myriad of T-shirt styles depicting his likeness. In Thailand, this demonstrator wore her bin Laden t-shirt to a pro-democracy rally in June 2007, while in Indonesia, a member of that country's Muslim hard-line group Jemaah Islamiya wore his shirt to the trial of the group's leader, Abu Bakar Bashir, on May 7, 2003.

HOANG DINH NAM/AFP/Getty Images and CHOO YOUN-KONG/AFP/Getty Images

 
 

BITLIPIRE

2:04 PM ET

May 3, 2011

true

is this true? we didn't see the body. r they left it? some respect.. I dont believe this..

 

N.MOHAMMED

12:05 PM ET

May 8, 2011

Islam and extremism

http://www.islamicsolutions.com/if-it-is-extreme-it-is-not-islam/

 

CRIACAOSITES

2:15 PM ET

May 17, 2011

Osama DEAD

I tink that the USA win more respect if keep Osama alive for be tryal in julgament. leilão online | contabilidade no rio de janeiro

 

ELFEN69

1:10 AM ET

May 19, 2011

I totally agree, that he has

I totally agree, that he has cult devoted people all around the world. But I also wonder, why they didnt show his body to us. I have only seen blog where they showed his fake pictures.

Well, to be honest, I dont know what to believe in anymore.

Just my 2 cents.