MDMD "some crazy Enterprizer" (239.16)

[Doug Millison]

One of Osama bin Laden's brothers is planning to launch a fashion label
bearing the family name, despite its doom-laden notoriety.

In one of the most extraordinary twists since September 11, Yeslam
Binladin, one of Bin Laden's 53 siblings, hopes one day to sell the line in
the US.

The move was immediately condemned as a "bad taste" stunt, with one
marketing expert likening it to an attempt to sell "Hitler-branded shoes".

Mr Binladin applied to register the two-word trademark 'Bin Ladin' in
Switzerland and the European Union before the September 11 attacks.  [...]

http://media.guardian.co.uk/marketingandpr/story/0,7494,634861,00.html