Totally spurious?
Eye hesitates to ask readers if they watch the Richard and Judy Show, but a most bizarre item was spotted on this TV programme recently by Linda Singer of Reading MM. She was watching an interview with the comedian Dom Joly.
'He spoke of attending a Quaker school in Ramallah, with Osama Bin Laden as a classmate!' says a startled Linda. 'Is this something you could look into? An interesting, if not proud connection.'
Our investigations have not revealed anything so far, but if anyone knows what this connection might be, let us know!
posted by Eye @ 12:29 PM
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We've now had a response to this and Eye can reveal that Osama was indeed at the Friends School when he was 16. Unfortunately, we are told, the Quaker influence was somewhat eclipsed by his interest in the ladies of Beirut - more to follow...
Wikipedia as ever gets halfway there but never quite all the way presuming that his school was in Beirut because that was where he was born...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dom_Joly
New information: Osama was in fact at the Brumanna School, not Ramallah. That's in Lebanon.
... or maybe not. See new post. This has certainly proved the detective ability of our readers!
This is a rumor that has been around for a while. It has never been confirmed by BHS records. Indeed, research before 9/11 revealed no records of OBL in the school's repository of records from the decade of the seventies. Instead, however, he had three brothers that attended. That is likely the source of the confusion.
Besides Dom Joly's offhand comment, a book by Adam Robinson on OBL also states it as fact. Yet no alumni or staff of that era have come forth with personal recollection of his attendance. So, if he was somehow enrolled, in spite of the absence of official confirmation, he did not physcially attend classes or interact with the staff and other students.
Perhaps if he had, things might have been different?
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