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50 People Who Matter 2010 | 21. Osama bin Laden
Terrorist-in-chief.
By New Statesman Published 21 September 2010
The al-Qaeda leader is so wanted by the US that even his cook received a 14-year sentence in Guantanamo Bay.
As al-Qaeda has become more disparate, Bin Laden has struggled to maintain unity, but he has survived nearly ten years of US warfare directed at him. He will haunt the world for a while yet.
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