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أَيْنَمَا تَكُونُواْ يُدْرِككُّمُ الْمَوْتُ وَلَوْ كُنتُمْ فِي بُرُوجٍ مُّشَيَّدَةٍ

[Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower.]

• Qur'an; Surah 4 Āyah 78

We have not been able to corroborate some of the more sensational threat reporting, such as that from a [redacted] in 1998 saying that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack a US aircraft to gain the release of "Blind Shaykh" Umar Abd al-Rahman and other US-held extremists.

Nevertheless, FBI information since that time indicates patterns of su... read the rest.