Osama bin Laden (left) and Indonesia’s Abu Bakar Bashir.Most News Weekly readers will recognise at least one of the photos on this page.Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, left, is widely recognised as a totemic figure and war leader, and the key figure behind the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Indonesia’s Abu Bakar Bashir, by contrast, is respectfully referred to by the media as a “cleric”. In the Western mind, a cleric is usually a holy man in the service of a church, a …
