Just released ep3 about my gitmo namesake, #TheOtherLatif! It covers the first time he allegedly met Osama Bin Laden. (Acc to a US govt informant, he later became a top OBL advisor.) Instead of spoiling the ep, I'm just gonna tweet random facts about OBL: wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radio…
OBL was obsessed with sunflowers. He experimented to try to grow the biggest and best 🌻 in the world. And he thought the ones he did grow deserved to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. (source: @lawrence_wright and @cathyscottclark)
@lawrence_wright @cathyscottclark As a teenager, OBL was in an a cappella group. (source: @lawrence_wright)
@lawrence_wright @cathyscottclark While in Sudan, OBL owned a candy company. (source: Jamal al Fadl testimony)
@lawrence_wright @cathyscottclark OBL once wrote an open letter to Barack Obama urging him to take climate change more seriously.
reuters.com/article/us-usa…
@lawrence_wright @cathyscottclark The only files gathered from the Abbottabad raid that are still classified is OBL’s porn stash. A blogger tried to FOIA it back in 2015 but CIA denied.
washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…
@lawrence_wright @cathyscottclark Something that did come out from one of the Abottabad data dumps? That someone (OBL?) used his computer to watch “Charlie Bit My Finger” and crochet tutorials, and even play the video game Counter Strike.
vanityfair.com/style/2017/11/…
@lawrence_wright @cathyscottclark While he lived in Sudan, OBL loved to go to horseraces, but thought the instrumental music that played on the speakers was sacrilegious so plugged his ears whenever it played. (source: @lawrence_wright)
@lawrence_wright @cathyscottclark Also. And this one is kind of eerie. The morning of 9/11/2001, hours before the first plane hit the Twin Towers, Bill Clinton talked on tape about how he had a chance to kill Bin Laden but didn't because it would also have killed 300 women and children. abcnews.go.com/US/bill-clinto…
@lawrence_wright @cathyscottclark That's enough for now. Listen to the latest ep of #TheOtherLatif! You'll hear way more surprises in there. It's available now in the @Radiolab podcast feed ... wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radio…
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