A sign now outside the small library at a religious school for girls in Pakistan's capital says the room has been named for a martyr — Osama bin Laden, whose al-Qaida terrorist network was responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks that killed more than 3,000 people in New York, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
"For us he was a hero of Islam," .
The school in Islamabad is run by "hardline cleric Maulana Abdul Aziz, the imam of the city's Lal Masjid (Red Mosque)," .
In 2007, that mosque was the site of a It came to an end when government forces moved in. More than 100 people died. Afterward, there was across Pakistan as militants struck back.
Bin Laden during a raid on the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, where he had been hiding for several years.
Earlier this week, — The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014. Here's how the show described that book:
"Highly critical of Pakistan, it offers new information about how Islamabad has helped the Taliban in Afghanistan, and how Pakistan's intelligence agency may have helped Osama bin Laden hide out in Abbottabad, Pakistan."
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