09-25-2005, 12:41 PM
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Ever Vigilant He Never Sleeps.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
Location: Mullet Country
Posts: 5,021
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Bipa
أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن
There ya go.... his REAL, official name
Lost in translation
Transcribing Arabic into the Roman alphabet is fraught with difficulty. And in an age of electronic text, search engines and databases, the problem is only going to get worse, writes Brian Whitaker
Monday June 10, 2002
....Strictly speaking, there's no reason why E or O should ever appear in an Arab name, since Arabic has only three vowels - A, I and U. ...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/elsewhere/...730805,00.html
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Look, I've seen his birth certificate. It says Osama.
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