Along the way Roche met people he later recognised on the FBI's Most Wanted list. When he saw the faces of five or six of those he had had dealings with in Afghanistan or on the way there, he told the court, he was shocked.
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In Karachi, he was met by a man he believed to be the son of Bashir, who was known in cyberspace as Sniper21. In Kandahar, one of his escorts was the son of Osama bin Laden. He later ate dinner with bin Laden himself.