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Court lifts Bin Laden book ban

This content was published on Dec 27, 2002 Geneva-based Yeslam Binladin had sought to have the book blocked on the grounds that it was defamatory. Binladin said the book – “Bin Laden, The Forbidden Truth” – implied that he and his company SICO (Saudi Investment Company) had bankrolled al-Qaeda. But the court ruled that the fact that Binladin and his half-brother came from…