Osama bin Laden stood out not just because of his height but because of his serious, conservative demeanour, according to a man who says the al-Qaida leader was a student in his judo classes in Saudi Arabia.
Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed in a firefight with US forces in Pakistan on Sunday, ending a nearly 10-year worldwide hunt for the mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
This video frame grab, obtained from ABC News on May 2, 2011, shows the interior bedroom in the mansion where Osama Bin Laden was killed May 1.
Smoke from the remains of New York's World Trade Center shrouds lower Manhattan as a lone seagull flies overhead in a photograph taken across New York Harbor from Jersey City, New Jersey, in this September 12, 2001 file picture.
Iraq's army and police went on high alert on Monday for possible revenge attacks in one of al Qaeda's major battlefields after US forces killed Osama bin Laden.
Challenging the might of the "infidel" United States, Osama bin Laden masterminded the deadliest militant attacks in history and then built a global network of allies to wage a "holy war" intended to outlive him.