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Many of us didn't believe in the image of bin Laden as a wandering Old Man of the Mountains, living on plants and insects in an inhospitable cave somewhere on the porous Pakistan-Afghan border.

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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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