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WORLD BLOGSWith a bold red banner and
the long-awaited word -- "Deceased" -- the Federal Bureau of Investigation
retired Osama bin Laden from its Most Wanted lists early Monday morning. The terrorist mastermind was
the only individual at the time to occupy both the FBI's 10 Most Wanted
Fugitives list and its Most Wanted Terrorists list -- a testament not only
to the extreme threat that bin Laden posed but also to the bureau's shifting
priorities in the years leading up to and following the attacks of Sept. 11,
2001. Bin Laden became one of the
FBI’s 10 most wanted fugitives on June 7, 1999, after being indicted in
absentia in a New York court for his alleged role in the 1998 embassy
bombings in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. He joined the ranks
of alleged murderers, rapists and drug traffickers, because at the time the
10 Most Wanted list -- a 60-year-old FBI program designed to enlist the
public in capturing outlaws -- was the most notorious ranking of criminals
in the land. Contrary to popular belief,
members of the list aren't ranked; bin Laden was never technically Public
Enemy Number One. But he certainly stood out among his 10 Most Wanted peers,
who carry rewards ranging from $100,000 to $2 million. Theirs are serious
crimes -- such as James J. Bulger’s alleged 19 counts of murder, or Alexis
Flores’ alleged kidnapping and murder of a 5-year-old girl. But all of their
misdeeds paled in comparison to bin Laden's role as a mastermind of the
Sept. 11 attacks. Bin Laden was also hunted
for organizing a global network committed to bringing down the United
States, reinstating a seventh-century caliphate governed by Islamic law and
forcing nonbelievers to live by that code.
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