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Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. A Salafi jihadist, bin Laden worked to establish a pan-Islamist caliphate by using al-Qaeda to organize and fund jihadist militants and terrorists worldwide. Al-Qaeda's terrorist attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001 directly killed 2,977 victims, and resulted in the U.S.-led global war on terror.
business · Founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011) · civil engineer · businessperson · jihadist · terrorist · building contractor · also Osama bin Laden, Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin ‘Awaḍ bin Lādin, Usama bin Laden٧, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Laden
Born 10 March 1957 · Died 2 May 2011 · Q1317
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It has become clear that the West in general and America in particular have an unspeakable hatred for Islam. [...] It is the hatred of crusaders. Terrorism against America deserves to be praised because it was a response to injustice, aimed at forcing America to stop its support for Israel, which kills our people.
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“calculated in advance [what] the number of casualties from the enemy [would be] based on the position of the towers”
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Idaho State Journal: He killed Osama bin Laden: SEAL Robert O'Neill to headline Heroes Defense 9/11 gala in Idaho Falls
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Mshale: CNN: President Obama 'Osama Bin Laden Killed' Metropolitana Di Catania (ETqmIXC4cF)
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U.S. Senate (.gov): Declaración del senador estadounidense Mark Warner sobre la muerte de Osama bin Laden
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Mshale: Found Media: (CNN Excerpt) Osama Bin Laden Interview With Al Jazeera (Aired 01/31/2002) Ncis Sydney (jaO8w3CfOn)
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Mshale: President Obama On Death Of Osama Bin Laden Henrikh Mkhitaryan (BLvRiDAWTA)
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NDTV: How Osama Bin Laden's Hand-Picked Hijacker Nearly Got Dropped From 9/11 Plan
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The South Shore Press: “Osama Bin Laden: The Early Life of a Terrorist.”
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newsweek.com: Osama bin Laden’s Hand-picked Hijacker Was Almost Fired from 9/11 Plot
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Infobae: La cabeza de “El 03” vale tanto como Osama Bin Laden: recompensa de 25 mdd supera a El Chapo Guzmán
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fact checker rated the claim “Social media users are circulating a Photo Shows Senator Lindsey Graham Posing with al-Qaeda Founder Osama Bin Laden.” misleading.
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Lead Stories rated the claim “A photo authentically shows Senators John McCain and Lindsay Graham standing with Osama Bin Laden.” Old Fake.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “An image shows Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Osama Bin Laden meeting” Altered picture.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph of Avril Lavigne and Steven Anthony Lawrence posing together was found saved on Osama bin Laden's hard drive.” False.
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USA Today rated the claim “Image shows George W. Bush meeting with Osama bin Laden” Altered.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “An authentic photograph shows Osama bin Laden seated with former U.S. President George W. Bush or his father, the late President George H.W. Bush, in a Pentagon meeting that included other U.S. officials.” Fake.
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AP News rated the claim “A photo shows President George W. Bush meeting with Osama bin Laden.” Altered photo.
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Snopes rated the claim “Images shared on social media authentically show Osama bin Laden posing with Barack Obama, Condoleezza Rice, and Hillary Clinton.” Fake.
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Snopes rated the claim “A photograph authentically shows Tupac Shakur with Osama bin Laden.” Fake.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A photograph accurately shows Tom Hanks in character as Osama bin Laden in a new Netflix series.” Fake.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “A video shows Osama bin Laden singing Lady Gaga's "Poker Face."” False.
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Africa Check rated the claim “CIA issues posthumous apology after new evidence clears Osama bin Laden of involvement in 9/11 attacks.” Satire.
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That documents taken from the compound during the raid generally showed that he was wary of contacting Pakistani intelligence and police about various concerns, especially as Pakistan had arrested Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
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Released documents revealed that bin Laden had once asked family members to use for "jihad" the $29 million USD they were allegedly supposed to inherit from him upon his death
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And include details of alleged Saudi involvement in the attacks; they mention that, "while in the United States, some of [the] hijackers were in contact with, and received support or assistance from, individuals who may
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That Ahmad Shuja Pasha, while serving as head of the ISI from 2008 to 2012, knew of bin Laden's location—and in 2015, Seymour Hersh cited U
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And was renamed the 'Islamic State of Iraq and Syria', known as the 'Islamic State' (IS)
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Pakistan released an intelligence report detailing bin Laden's movements while he had lived in the country, based on interrogations of his three surviving wives
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Died 2011-05-02.
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“s ally, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, who had interpreted al-tatarrus to justify routine massacres of Muslim civilians, which had turned away many Muslims previously supportive of Islamist jihadism. He then created a code of conduct constraining his allies”
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Bin Laden wrote a letter criticizing followers of his, such al-Qaeda's ally, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, who had interpreted al-tatarrus to justify routine massacres of Muslim civilians, which had turned away many Muslims
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Al-Zawahiri merged al-Qaeda in Yemen and al-Qaeda of Saudi Arabia into 'al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula' (AQAP)
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“The interests of the Ummah take precedence over the interest of any state, the interests of the state take precedence over the interest of any group, the interests of the group take precedence over any individual”
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Shows bin Laden with bin al-Shibh and two 9/11 hijackers, Hamza al-Ghamdi and Wail al-Shehri, as they made preparations for the attacks
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AQI claimed responsibility for the 22 February bombing of the al-Askari Mosque in Samarra, Iraq—one of the holiest Shia sites—which destroyed its upper exterior
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That this was essentially how his soldiers had helped force the Soviet Union to withdraw from Afghanistan at the end of the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989)
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“s Twin Towers (1 and 2 WTC) as revenge for the destruction of towers in Beirut by U.S.-backed Israeli troops in the Siege of Beirut, during the 1982 Lebanon War:”
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Bin Laden said he was inspired to target the World Trade Center's Twin Towers (1 and 2 WTC) as revenge for the destruction of towers in Beirut by U
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the leader of the Sunni Iraqi insurgent group Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad (JTJ), declared the group's allegiance to al-Qaeda, in exchange for bin Laden publicly recognizing him as the head of a new
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The Wall Street Journal reported that it included some of bin Laden's brothers, the Alrajhi banking family, and billionaire bankers Khalid bin Mahfouz and Saleh Kamel
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That bin Laden had led one of the tribes during the march
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The Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities publicly released its final report on 9/11
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Then-former Serbian and Yugoslav president Slobodan Milošević claimed at his UN trial that he had received an FBI report claiming al-Qaeda had aided the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic-Albanian paramilitary that
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Authorities in Sarajevo, Bosnia, raided the offices of a Saudi aid agency that assisted Bosnian Muslims in the war, the Saudi High Commission for Relief of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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“It has become clear that the West in general and America in particular have an unspeakable hatred for Islam. [...] It is the hatred of crusaders. Terrorism against America deserves to be praised because it was a response to injustice, aimed at forcing America to stop its support for Israel, which kills our people.”
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Bin Laden worked closely with the Supreme Leader of Afghanistan, Mullah Omar
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Foreign operatives working for the CIA fired an RPG at a convoy of vehicles bin Laden was traveling in through the Afghan mountains
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To have been about $300 million, and in 2001, at about $50 to 60 million
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Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Mohammed Atef designed the general plan for 9/11
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Al-Qaeda planned terrorist attacks to occur in multiple countries on and around New Year's Day 2000 (the date popularly considered the start of the new millennium)
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Al-Qaeda declared a formal alliance with the EIJ, and al-Zawahiri became bin Laden's deputy
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A branch of al-Qaeda named 'al-Qaeda in Yemen' (AQY) began an insurgency against the Yemeni government in an attempt to control the region
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The head of Albania's State Intelligence Service, Fatos Klosi, said that bin Laden had founded a terror network disguised as a humanitarian organization in Albania in 1994, and that the network were currently taking part
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“So we tell the Americans as people, [...] that if they value their lives and the lives of their children, to find a nationalistic government that will look after their interests and not the interests of the Jews.”
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Nasser al-Bahri, bin Laden's bodyguard from 1997 to 2001, described him as a frugal man and a strict father, who took his family to picnics in the desert, and did recreational shooting with them.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden, and he again moved to Afghanistan, which came under Taliban control later that year
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Khalid Sheikh Mohammed presented bin Laden a modified version of the Bojinka plot idea; in the U
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And 1998, bin Laden declared holy war on Americans, both military and civilians
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And 1998, in both of which he declared war on the U
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Allowing him to fly to Jalalabad, Afghanistan, aboard a chartered flight on 18 May
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His fifth marriage was to an unnamed woman in 1996; it was annulled within days of the ceremony.
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Weeks before the planned attack date, the plot was foiled when Yousef's Manila apartment burned down; investigating the fire, police found evidence incriminating him in the plot
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The EIJ, working with Sudanese intelligence and Egyptian group al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, attempted to assassinate Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak
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The Bosnian War ended with the Republic's dissolution, and the formation of the country simply named Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Fahd stripped him of his Saudi citizenship
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Yousef rehearsed the Bojinka bombings by setting one off at a theatre in Manila, and the other onboard Philippine Airlines Flight 434, which killed a passenger
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They had three children, then divorced in 1993.
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Mohammed's nephew, Ramzi Yousef, and a group of al-Qaeda members bombed the underground portion of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six people and injuring more than a thousand
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Al-Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center in New York City, injuring a thousand people
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The two states' militaries, the Army of Republika Srpska and the Croatian Defence Council, began ethnic cleansing operations against the Bosniaks
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Or 1993, bin Laden sent an emissary, Qari el-Said, with $40,000 USD to Algeria to aid the local Islamists and urge them to go to war against the Algerian government, rather than negotiate with them
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As the Soviet Union collapsed, it ended its remaining support to the Republic
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Bin Laden funded a coup attempt led by extremist communist general Shahnawaz Tanai to overthrow the Republic, which failed
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Forming the modern Republic of Yemen, first led by Saleh
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Commanded a mujahideen force in the 1989–1992 Afghan Civil War
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Bin Laden founded al-Qaeda
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Career landmark: General Emir of Al-Qaeda (1988–2011).
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He married Khairiah Sabir in 1985, and they had a son, Hamza, who may be an al-Qaeda leader.
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Co-founded Maktab al-Khidamat, which recruited foreigners into the Afghan mujahideen while funding and arming them
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Bin Laden and Azzam founded Maktab al-Khidamat (MaK), which recruited fighters from across the Arab world into the Afghan mujahideen, while funneling those fighters arms and money; this included paying for their flights
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Studied at King Abdulaziz University (1981).
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Studied at King Abdulaziz University (1979).
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Muslim-majority Afghanistan was occupied by the mostly non-Muslim Soviet Union; as socialists, the Soviets backed the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, a socialist national government which was installed in a military
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Studied at Al-Thager Model School (1968–1976).
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In 1974, bin Laden married Najwa Ghanem, his first cousin.
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Bin Laden married Najwa Ghanem, his first cousin
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And in the early 1960s, his mother married Mohammed al-Attas, an employee of the Saudi Binladin Group
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Born 1957-03-10.
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Studied at Brummana High School.
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Studied at Thomas Sprigg Wootton High School.
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Career landmark: September 11 attacks.
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Career landmark: killing of Osama bin Laden.
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