Osama bin Laden vs. Winston Churchill
Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers
Osama bin Laden
1957 – 2011
Osama bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of the al-Qaeda militant organization. A pan-Islamist and Islamic extremist, bin Laden organized and funded numerous jihadist or anti-Western militants and terrorist attacks worldwide. Al-Qaeda's September 11, 2001 attacks (9/11) against the United States directly killed 2,977 victims.
"We had notification since the previous Thursday that the event would take place that day. We had finished our work that day and had the radio on. It was 5:30 PM…"
Winston Churchill
1940 – 2010
Winston Churchill (1874) was a British statesman, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during World War II, and Nobel Prize winner in Literature.
"Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."