New Delhi, Aug 31: It's improbable, not impossible. As the first anniversary of the 9/11 catastrophe approaches, a growing band of Osama bin Laden-watchers has come to believe the world's most wanted terrorist could be a sci-fi freak who named his outfit after an Issac Asimov novel.
Al-Qaeda, the sci-fi fantasists claim, is Arabic for ‘the foundation’, the name of a book written by Asimov in the 1950s. And that’s not all that’s common between Asimov's futuristic Foundation and Laden’s Al-Qaeda.