Reading Lawrence Wright's "The Looming Tower", nicely novelistic account of the history of Al Qaeda. Suddenly I discover a disturbing fact: Osama bin Laden's favorite TV show when he was a boy was the same as mine: "Fury", starring Peter Graves, a cute kid and a horse.
The show was filmed, I think, around the time I was born. I was watching reruns, in syndication, broadcast from a Lansing MI TV station--it came in only fuzzily on our West Michigan screen. And it played at 6 AM--I'd get up before anyone else in the family to watch it.
I think I had a schoolboy crush on the young protagonist. And I liked the "boys' adventure" romance of it all. Wonder what Osama was responding to...
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