BBC NEWS | South Asia | Who is Osama Bin Laden?

The terrorist 'terrible'; CIA's most wanted man; Hero to millions of Islamites; the jihad leader of Islamic extremists; Laden's sobriquets in the West are many. No one knows where he is, like a secret submarine, he is spotted somewhere on the globe and disappears as fast . This is BBC's page on the supposed 9/11 planner-in-chief.