Google devotes homepage to woman who ‘admired’ Osama bin Laden

Published May 20, 2016 3:04am ET



Google celebrated what would have been the 95th birthday Thursday of Yuri Kochiyama, an Asian-American activist who in 2003 called Osama bin Laden a leader she “admired.”

Google Doodle, the search engine’s homepage logo, showcased an animated photo of Kochiyama on Thursday, which linked to a separate page that celebrated her life — spent fighting for “human rights and against racism and injustice,” according to Google.

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