AP Photo

Exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in this April 1998 picture in Afghanistan.

• Interpol most wanted poster
• CIA unclassified fact sheet on bin Laden (3 pages)
• MSANEWS bin Laden pages
• Sept. 12 Frontline interview with Judith Miller of the N.Y. Times, who has covered bin Laden since 1993.
• Time Magazine profile
  With in-depth look at Tomahawk missile strikes against Sudan and Afghanistan following bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
• Hunting bin Laden
  PBS Frontline special which aired following the bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998. Excellent online resource.
• BBC: Who is Osama Bin Laden? • Bin Laden's command structure • Who are the Taleban?

Interviews:

• Greetings, America. My Name is Osama bin Laden 1999 Esquire interview with OBL in Afghanistan reads like a Tom Clancy novel
• Transcript of 1997 Osama Bin Ladin interview by Peter Arnett. The first-ever television interview with bin Laden.
• 1998 interview with bin Ladin by John Miller, ABC news (Google cache)
• Transcript of a 1999 radio broadcast including interview with bin Laden at the Terrorism Research Center.

Analysis:

• Understanding Osama Bin Laden
  A Brown University Middle-East Expert Warns Against a Severe U.S. Miscalculation
  
  

Jihad (Holy war)

• Jihad links
• The Jihad Webring
  
  

Al-Qaida (terrorist network)

• From: Patterns of Global Terrorism, 2000. United States Department of State, April 2001 (concise)
• Al-Qaida warns US against attack on Osama (Google cache)
• Al-Qaida (The Base / Bin Laden) links
• Yahoo search
  
  

Terrorism

• The Political Terrorism Database
• Terrorism Research Center
• Murder by the book (8 pages)
• Terrorism manual excerpts (14 pages)
• Interrogating a bin Laden disciple (9 pages)
• Department of Justice releases names of the 19 hijackers involved in Tuesday's terrorist attacks. / 9.14.2001 (PDF document, requires Adobe Acrobat Reader )

Why do they hate America?

• Comment: They can't see why they are hated - Guardian.uk
• Whoever attacked the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, Muslims now face the consequences
  Sept. 16 (sic), 2001 Crescent International editorial