Bin Laden had a bullet ready-in case he was caught (also 'hated' Saddam)

http://www.localnewsleader.com/elytimes/stories/news-00109044.html

Bin Laden had a bullet ready-in case he was caught

LOS ANGELES - Osama bin Laden has vowed never to be taken alive and once gave his bodyguard a pistol with two bullets to shoot him if it appeared that he might be caught, according to a new book of interviews with people who know the al Qaeda leader.

The book excerpted in the new issue of Vanity Fair, "The Osama bin Laden I Know: An Oral History" by CNN security expert Peter Bergen, also says bin Laden intensely dislikes deposed Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein .

After the 2001 attacks on the United States carried out by al Qaeda the Bush administration made much of what it said were links between Saddam and bin Laden‘s organization, citing this as one justification for the 2003 invasion of Iraq .

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Bin Laden‘s Pakistani biographer, Hamid Mir, told Bergen that when he interviewed bin Laden, the al Qaeda leader "condemned Saddam Hussein ... He gave such kind of abuses that it was very difficult for me to write," he said.