Terrorist Leader Osama bin Laden
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Kalashnikov
Bin Laden cultivated a warrior image, often posing with a Kalashnikov rifle that he boasted to have taken from a Russian soldier he killed during the war that ousted the Soviets from Afghanistan. This image was released in April 2001.
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