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Usama or Obama - How many others think FOX news missed the boat with this one?

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Real Estate Agent with Kona Home Team (luva llc) RS 62947

I had never heard Osama Bin Laden,  called Usama Bin Laden, before? I was watching CNN and when they would  go to a break, I would switch over to FOX news, and all they would talk about was Usama, I kept thinking they were talking about Osama's son? How many viewers did they lose,  trying to be different? I think they totaly missed the boat with this one, looking for others opinions?

Here is the Wikipedia explanation 

There is no universally accepted standard for transliterating Arabic words and Arabic names into English;[11] bin Laden's name was most frequently rendered "Osama bin Laden". The FBI and CIA, as well as other US Governmental agencies, have used either "Usama bin Laden" or "Usama bin Ladin", both of which may be abbreviated as "UBL". Less common renderings include "Ussamah Bin Ladin" and "Oussama Ben Laden" in the French-language media. Other spellings include "Binladen" or, as used by his family in the West, "Binladin". The spellings with o and e come from a Persian-influenced pronunciation also used in Afghanistan, where bin Laden spent many years.

The Arabic linguistic convention would be to refer to him as "Osama" or "Osama bin Laden", not "bin Laden" alone, as "bin Laden" is a patronymic, not a surname in the Western manner. In its expanded form, it means "Osama, son of Mohammed, son of Awad, son of Laden".

Osama bin Laden's admirers have referred to him by several aliases and nicknames, including the Prince(Al-Amir), the Sheikh, Abu Abdallah, Sheikh Al-Mujahid, and the Lion Sheik,[12] the Director.[13]

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Wallace S. Gibson, CPM
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Why does THIS continue to be an issue?  This was explained ad nauseum  ten years ago

May 03, 2011 10:31 PM
Kona Home Team (LUVA LLC) Lance Owens (RB-24133)
Kona Home Team (luva llc) - Kailua-Kona, HI
2024 Real Estate Expert - Hawaii Island

Aloha Wallace, 

Sorry to have struck a nerve, I had just never heard of him being called Usama - maybe its just me? I really thought FOX missed the boat, and looking at other blogs out there, I dont seem to be the only one. 

May 07, 2011 08:58 AM