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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 10:56 PM
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Children in bin Laden house had home school
http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle09.asp?xfile=data/international/2011/May/international_May409.xml§ion=international

(Reuters)

9 May 2011, 6:13 PM

ISLAMABAD - About 16 children who were living with Osama bin Laden in his Pakistani hideout were carefully watched by the al Qaeda leader, forced to study at home and rarely ventured out of the fortress-like compound. snip

Pakistani investigators searching the buildings after the raid found a room equipped with a drawing board that served as a home school for the children. snip

“They were very protective, very secretive about the children ... As you can imagine, the children may have blurted something out,” said the official, who declined to be identified as he is not authorised to speak to the media.

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Billy Burnett Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:05 PM
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1. Al Queda Teabaggers.



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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:11 PM
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3. Big proponents on making English the official language, too, I'm sure.
Funny how stupid people can can demand a constitutional law professor read the Constitution when they can even spell it properly.
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Quixote1818 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 01:30 AM
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12. Just what I was thinking. nt
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WatsonT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:07 PM
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2. Hitler was a vegetarian
Stalin wrote poetry.

Kim Jong Il loves westerns.

And Osama bin laden home schools.

Just watch for this to be used as an argument against homeschooling. I wonder at what age level their bomb making skills are at?
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LibertyLover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 01:12 PM
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15. Don't know about bomb-making, but
I bet they can quote the Koran really well. Of course only the suras that justify jihad I'm guessing. What I want to know is what languages do the children speak. I'm guessing Urdu of course since they did sometimes play with children in the neighborhood, but what about Farsi and Arabic?
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WatsonT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 02:27 PM
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16. I'm guessing not hebrew
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:19 PM
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4. What a horrible life.
Stuck with that horrible dour man. That's no way for a kid to have to live.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:20 PM
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5. Ruh-roh. A home schooling thread w/bin laden.
:popcorn:
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AlabamaLibrul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:21 PM
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7. Wonder if they have Olive Garden in Pakistan.......
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xmas74 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:29 PM
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9. Is DU still stuck on the Olive Garden?
I thought they gave that up years ago.
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madinmaryland Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 01:04 PM
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13. Probably a few screaming kids and some breast feeding going on also.
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AlabamaLibrul Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 01:07 PM
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14. .
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Lex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:21 PM
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6. Religious nuts and their home-schooling the world over. Sheesh. nt
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:21 PM
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8. Bet they were awesome at spelling bees (n/m)
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whoneedstickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-09-11 11:38 PM
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10. If they went to public school they might have been exposed to ideas...
..incompatible with their fundamentalist views, oh, wait, this was in Pakistan. Never mind.

I bet they were actually teaching them math and stuff an not simply memorizing the Koran like in the madrasah.

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Mojeoux Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-10-11 01:21 AM
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11. So "Mr. Taliban" himself had educated women teaching
the children. Presumably, the girls and boys.

:eyes: :crazy: :dunce: :wow: :eyes: :crazy: :dunce: :wow: :eyes: :crazy: :dunce: :wow:
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