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I do not remember the source, but heard that the town had checkpoints at entry as well.

The guy was six and a half feet tall and on kidney dialysis. How was he not noticed for this long?

In his book on 9/11 and Al-Queda, The Looming Tower, Lawrence Wright claims that OBL is actually not particularly tall and certainly not 6'6".

A further insight into the type of man OBL was.

I heard BBC reporter John Simpson describe his one encounter with OBL which occurred in 1989 in Afghanistan during the war against the Soviets. Simpson was interviewing some Mujahadeen when OBL rode in on a horse and tried to persuade them to shoot Simpson and his crew. They refused.

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