Here’s how Reuters describes Osama bin Laden in a story about the newly surfaced audiotape allegedly made recently by bin Laden,
A man identified as Saudi-born dissident Osama bin Laden . . .
Saudi-born dissident? Anyone known if Reuters ever referred to Tim McVeigh as a “American-born dissident”? That would have made about as much sense as their designation for OBL.
Source:
Bin Laden Warns Against Backing U.S. ‘Butchers’-TV. Firouz Sedarat, Reuters, November 12, 2002.