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Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن, romanized: Usāma bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; 10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011.
Osama bin Laden, the notorious Saudi Arabian militant and founder of al-Qaeda, orchestrated numerous terrorist attacks that shook the world and forever changed global security dynamics.
Osama bin Laden founded the Islamist militant group Al Qaeda and was believed responsible for deadly acts of terrorism such as the September 11, 2001 attacks.
On May 2, [a] 2011, Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was shot and killed at his compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad by United States Navy SEALs of SEAL Team Six (also known as DEVGRU). [1] .
Osama bin Laden was a terrorist who formed the al Qaeda network and planned the 9/11 attacks against America. Read about his spouses, children, death, and more.
Osama bin Laden—also known as Usama bin Laden—was a violent terrorist and mass murderer who used bombings and bloodshed to advance his extremist goals.
As the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks approaches, a new biography traces Osama bin Laden's path from a shy, religious teenager to the leader of a global jihadist group...
