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May 15, 2024 · Osama bin Laden (born 1957, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia—died May 2, 2011, Abbottabad, Pakistan) was the founder of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda and mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers, including the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden and the ...
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May 10, 2024 · Mohammed bin Laden, Osama's father, died in 1967 in Saudi Arabia's southern desert. His plane, a Twin Beechcraft, crashed near Abha, Saudi Arabia, as he was on his way to marry his 23rd wife.
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May 3, 2024 · Mohammad Omar, Afghan militant and leader of the Taliban who was the emir of Afghanistan (1996–2001). His refusal to extradite al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden prompted the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 that overthrew the government there. Learn more about Omar in this article.
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4 days ago · Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( Arabic: أَبُو مُصْعَبٍ ٱلزَّرْقَاوِيُّ, ’Abū Muṣ‘ab az-Zarqāwī, Father of Musab, from Zarqa; English pronunciation ⓘ; October 30, 1966 [1] [2] [3] – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh ( أَحْمَدُ فَضِيلِ ٱلنَّزَالِ ٱلْخَلَايْلَةَ, ’Aḥmad Faḍīl an-Nazāl al-Ḫalāyla ), was a Jordanian jihadist who ran a ter...
3 days ago · FILE - This April 1998 file photo shows exiled Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden is seen in Afghanistan. Bin Laden's died May 2, 2011 during a raid by U.S. Navy SEALs in Pakistan.
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4 days ago · Ahmad Shah Massoud. Ahmad Shah Massoud ( Dari: احمد شاه مسعود, Persian pronunciation: [ʔæhmæd ʃɒːh mæsʔuːd]; September 2, 1953 – September 9, 2001) was an Afghan military leader and politician. [4] He was a guerrilla commander during the resistance against the Soviet occupation during the Soviet–Afghan War from 1979 to ...
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