Last three featured on this cover were so-called Islamist extremists. I sense a pattern here, could Gaddafi be next?
Hitting newsstands Thursday, the cover will feature a Tim O’Brien illustration of the terrorist’s face with a red X across it (the issue will be available on the iPad the same day).
Bin Laden is the fourth person in the magazine’s history to receive that treatment (Adolf Hilter [May 7, 1945], Saddam Hussein [April 21, 2003] and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi [June 19, 2006]).