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Mosque-Building Bin Ladens Buy Marble Once Used for Churches

Statue of Limitations

Osama’s family business has bought into the Carrara quarries, which supplied the marble for some of Christianity’s greatest icons—and for the Freedom Tower in New York City.

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ROME, Italy — They were both bearded renegades who made history, although most chronicles or art or atrocity are never likely to put Michelangelo Buonarotti, Renaissance genius, on the same page as Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda mastermind and planner of the 9/11 attacks.

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