One project considered by Bin Laden, reported in the Guardian last month, was the creation of a grand alliance of militant groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan under the umbrella of al-Qaida.
"We want Iran to calculate what I think is a fair assessment: that if the United States extends a defence umbrella over the region, if we do even more to develop the military capacity of those [allies] in the Gulf, it is unlikely that Iran will be any stronger or safer because they won't be able to intimidate and dominate as they apparently believe they can once they have a nuclear weapon".
"Lots of people care about things that fall under the political umbrella but they aren't educated about what politics actually is".
"President Obama has the power to begin to fix what has gone wrong in America, even if not to solve it entirely within the next three years," says Damon Silvers, policy director of the union umbrella group AFL-CIO.
In the space of just one week last month, according to Crif, the umbrella group for France's Jewish organisations, eight synagogues were attacked.
Conducted under the umbrella of the World Trade Organisaton, the talks could lead to the first significant changes to the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in 17 years, officials said.
This article was amended on 11 March 2011 to clarify the distinction between the hydrogen-peroxide bearing product that goes under the umbrella name of liquid oxygen, and the gas of the same name.
And, grotesquely comparing non-violent Islamists to "rightwing fascists", he warned that there would be a strict checklist of Muslim bodies the government would not now work with or fund (including the umbrella Muslim Council of Britain).
PD However inclement the weather at Pride Park on Sunday afternoon, you won't see Derby County manager Steve McClaren standing on the touchline with an umbrella.
Hong Kong's government has unveiled its proposed reforms to how the city chooses its leader – a project that spurred pro-democracy "umbrella protests" when guidelines were announced last year.
Homophobic behaviours should be condemned, and indeed sanctioned, instead of being justified under the freedom of thought umbrella while undermining somebody else's right to be treated equally.
