Meaning of "Bin Laden"

[Nika Bertram]

hm.. although rather more obvious would be the German interpretation of
the name as meaning simply "loading", like in "i am (off) loading my
guns"..

also: in linux, there is a directory for binary files abbreviated "bin",
which some geeks - before the attacks, of course - made fun of by using
things like "/bin/laden" as their pseudonyms.
and, btw, their user accounts got banned meanwhile ;)

just tidbits of info, i know, but as we're all pynchon-ites..

nika

On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 KXX4493553 at aol.com wrote:

> BTW, the name "Bin Laden" has a meaning in German: "bin" means "(I) am" and 
> Laden means "store". So Bin Laden means: (I) am a store. Remembers me at a 
> marketing slogan in the seventies you could read everywhere at German 
> gasoline stations: I am two gas tanks. 
> 
> Kurt-Werner Pörtner
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