For all that the Western allies want to restrict media coverage of Osama Bin Laden, the European press and public cannot seem to get enough of him.
As Europe’s ‘big three’, Britain, France and Germany held private talks on Friday on the fringes of the 15-member European Union summit, to reiterate full support for the ongoing military operations against Afghanistan, breakfast tables across the continent were treated to an unremitting diet of Bin Laden, his life and times and "big sexy eyes that women fancy".