You might want to check out this place. It's an interactive database that lets you start with somebody or some organization or thing and map the connections between things and people.
I immediately, of course, wanted to connect Osama bin Laden to Insignificant Dick Cheney, but I ended up connecting bin Laden instead to Prince, Madonna, Whitney Houston, and Vernon Jordan. Imagine that.
I'm not kidding. See for yourself.
Right now I'm mapping Pat Tillman to Timothy McVeigh. Fascinating, as Spock would say.