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Osama bin Laden talks tough, but other mujahedeen laughed at him in Afghanistan because he would get scared and bolt when under fire, a new documentary reveals.

"When bin Laden used to hear the explosions, he used to jump. He used to run away," his longtime friend Hutaifa Azzam says on "CNN Presents: In the Footsteps of bin Laden."

"I still remember that me, and my elder and younger brothers, we used to laugh," says Azzam, the son of bin Laden's mentor in radical Islam, Abdullah Azzam.
I don't think anyone is laughing now. Bin Laden has become an icon of terror and the worlds most wanted man. We may get the chance to laugh at him again one day, if he's caught hiding in a hole in the ground like his pal Saddam.

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posted at 09:27:21 on 08/01/06 - Category: All Branches

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08/01/06 16:26:04

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