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Apr 30, 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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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.
Dec 16, 2009 · Updated: September 11, 2023 | Original: December 16, 2009. On May 1, 2011, American soldiers killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden at his compound near Islamabad, Pakistan. Intelligence...
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Jun 7, 2023 · Osama bin Laden was a violent terrorist and founder of al Qaeda who killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children before his death in 2011.
Sep 11, 2023 · 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.
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Aug 4, 2021 · 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 dedicated ...
Sep 8, 2021 · He views bin Laden as the man who provoked 20 years of war that spread to Pakistan and even to his village. But the U.S. withdrawal from that war has boosted bin Laden's image. That's what we...
