What causes the change is the plight of her son (Won Bin), a simple, love-smothered boy who is accused, on flimsy testimony, of killing a local girl.

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In that sense, Osama bin Laden won yet another victory this week with the publication of another hate-filled, anti-Islamic diatribe by an Italian writer who has become noted for such diatribes: Oriana Fallaci.

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But tracking down bin Laden won't be easy.

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Rubbish that the council can recycle, garden cuttings and cans and plastics will be collected separately, and as for the rest of their rubbish - each home will get a wheelie bin but it won't be very big and it will only be collected once a fortnight.

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By that standard, even in death, Bin Laden has clearly won.

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It won't get to the bin on its own.

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If we put our very best people to work on this, it won't be long before Osama bin Laden will have trouble paying for his lunch, let alone for complex attacks.

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If Biden had won the White House in 2008, Osama bin Laden might still be alive.

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But even if al Qaeda is dismantled and bin Laden captured, the war won't be over, he said, indicating it will be a continuing operation in the United States.

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Bin Laden and his murderous vision won some adherents.

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That won't change the ideas of a Osama bin Laden who are very ideologically fixed on trying to strike at the West, but it will change the pool of young people who they can recruit from.

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How can we be assured that these weapons won't fall into the hands of a fanatic like bin Laden?

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"John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell -- but he won't even follow him to the cave where he lives, " Obama charged.

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Houston won with its proposal to allow residents to mix trash, recyclables and lawn waste in a single bin ready for automatic sorting.

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Citing a recent recording from al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that threatens attacks on Europe, Bush said the war in Afghanistan must be won.

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City, on the other hand, hasn't won the English title since 1968 and played unremarkably for the better part of four decades until Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed al-Nahyan of the Abu Dhabi royal family bought the team in 2008.

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"I don't think TPI won the business license merely from the help of Hong-gul, because TPI President Song Jae-bin made the same request to several other people, " Mr Choi was quoted as saying by South Korea's Yonhap news agency.

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If that all means that in some sense Osama Bin Laden provoked the U.S. into self-destructiveness, then in that sense he won the struggle he began on September 11.

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