From here:

Here’s how the new head of al-Qaeda remembers Osama bin Laden: A sensitive man who cried when his friends lost family members, remained close to his children despite the hard life of an international jihadist, and fondly remembered — by name — the 19 men who carried out the deadliest terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil.

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“People don’t know that this man was tender, gentle, kind, with refined feelings, even when life was hard,” al-Zawahri said, wearing a white robe and turban and sitting in front of a green curtain. “We never saw a man like him.”

And while we’re at it, let’s not forget that Hitler slept with his dead sister’s teddy bear, Stalin sung in the choir at theological school, and Mao Tse-Tung was a poet and calligrapher.