Boyhood friend struggles with bin Laden's terror

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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia (CNN) -- Khaled Batarfi thought his teenage friend Osama was capable of many things.

He would become the next Bill Gates or follow in his father's footsteps and become one of the most successful businessmen in the Middle East. That was his picture of the young bin Laden's potential.

Batarfi never thought his friend would become the man the world knows as Osama bin Laden -- a leader of a terrorist organization and a man who plans and carries out mass murder.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/asiapcf/08/21/binladen.friend/index.html

I found this to be an interesting article. I couldn't imagine what it would be like if one of my childhood friends turned out to be like Bin Laden.