HW: Swindon

[M Holmes]

Nick Medford writes:

> On Mon, 5 Nov 2001 15:11:44 GMT, M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:
>
> >Come on. Osama Bin Laden thinks he's Hassan Ibn Sabha
>
> But I rather doubt he feeds his followers hashish to keep them on-message.

That's an interesting difference. Sabha felt that he needed to give the
assassins a taste of paradise before a mission. With Bin-Laden's
followers, they seem to accept paradise as a given reward. What's really
surprising is that these superstitions are held by otherwise educated
people.

FoFP