Bin Laden’s Days in Istanbul

Osama Bin Laden told Egyptian reporters for Arabic daily Cairo in 1994 that he had spent some time in Istanbul. He lived and worked in Istanbul, he said, because of “some troubles” with the Kingdom Saudi Arabia which he declined to specify. The report was ignored by most media outlets until recently; Bin Laden’s time in Istanbul became publicly known after the content of a CIA report became known. Turkish Daily Hurriyet quoted Bin Laden as saying: “When the Soviet Union invaded Kabul, I was residing in Turkey, having left the kingdom because of some differences, which I don’t like...

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