[link|http://www.time.com/time/europe/eu/magazine/0,9868,181702,00.html|Ben Heni spills the beans]

Serious excerpt:

Lased Ben Heni craved a glorious death. On a visit to the seedy apartment of a Tunisian friend, Essid Sami Ben Khemais, in a Milan suburb last March, the intense 32-year-old Libyan chafed at the strictures imposed on martyrdom by al-Qaeda.

Any dramatic action against "the enemies of God," he complained, required authorization of "Sheik Ali Abdullah" \ufffd an alias, according to the Italian antiterrorism officials bugging the conversation, for bin Laden himself.


Low blow excerpt:

On Oct. 10 Bavarian police arrested Ben Heni on an Italian warrant at the decrepit Munich rooming house that city welfare authorities had allocated to him in July. His conditions there could hardly have been less glorious: his Yugoslav roommate was battling advanced cancer, and Ben Heni himself, who had been granted political asylum in Germany in 1994, has been diagnosed with Crohn\ufffds disease, a painful inflammation of the intestinal tract.

As Archie Bunker would say:

His bowels are in an uproar.