Osama bin Laden - War On Terror | #FlashbackFriday

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Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, popularly known as Osama bin Laden, was born on 10 March 1957 to an ethnic Yemeni Kindite family of billionaire Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden in Saudi Arabia. Founder of the militant organization al-Qaeda, Osama is claimed responsible for the tragic September 11 attacks on the United States that killed thousands of civilians and militaries. He believed that Muslims should kill the civilians and military personnel of the United States and allied countries until they withdrew support for Israel and military forces from Islamic countries. He was also charged by the United States federal court for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya and was on the U.S. FBI’s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list. Click To Share The Video on Facebook : https://goo.gl/TsXwmz Click To Share The Video on Twitter : https://goo.gl/mMypta Click To Share The Video on Google + : https://goo.gl/Q4v8CQ Osama's full name, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, means “Osama, son of Mohammed, son of Awad, son of Laden”. The Emir studied at a university in the country till 1979 and joined mujahideen forces in Pakistan to fight against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He is known for funding the mujahideen with funneling arms, money and fighters from the Arabian areas into Afghanistan. After the formation of al-Qaeda, he was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992 and created a base in Sudan until U.S. pressure forced him to leave Sudan in 1996. This made him establish a new base in Afghanistan from where he declared a war against the United States. Bin Laden was listed on the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists of the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. Bin Laden was an idol of the Arab world for his contribution in training the jihadi fighters and establishing the Maktab al-Khidamat. However, Osama's need for more military roles urged him to split from the organisation and create al-Qaeda. Following the Soviet Union's withdrawal from Afghanistan in February 1989, Osama bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia in 1990 as a hero of jihad. Along with his Arab legion, he was thought to have "brought down the mighty superpower" of the Soviet Union. Bin Laden was well-linked with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad (EIJ) during his mujahideen operations in Khartoum, Sudan, which made up the core of al-Qaeda. The greatest terror attack involving Osama bin Laden is considered to be that of September 11, 2001 in the United States. It comprised of hijacking the four commercial passenger aircraft - United Airlines Flight 93, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 11 and American Airlines Flight 77 in order to fly two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the third into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, destroying the former and severely damaging the latter. The fourth aircraft, which was either intended to target the U.S. Capitol or the White House, crashed in Shanksville, Pennsylvania with no survivors. The 9/11 terror attack killed a total of 2,996 people including 2,191 civilians, 71 law enforcement officers and 343 firefighters who were in the World Trade Center and the surrounding area. From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, as the FBI placed a $25 million bounty on him in their search for him. Right from the presidency of George Walker Bush to that of the present Barack Obama, several projects were created to capture Osama until “Operation Neptune Spear” was carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency during the Obama administration. Barack Obama had pledged, “We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al-Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority.” On May 2, 2011, the White House announced that U.S. Navy SEALs had successfully carried out the operation, killing him in his private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. According to reports, Bin Laden married at least five women and later divorced the first two. According to Wisal al Turabi, he married them because they were “spinsters,” who “were going to go without marrying in this world. So he married them for the Word of God”. He is the father of about 24 children including Omar, Saad and Mohammed Babrak bin Laden who married the daughter of the former al-Qaeda military chief Mohammed Atef. Know more about the world around you. Subscribe NOW:- http://goo.gl/j9RqKK Like Us: htttp://www.facebook.com/livyourfame Tweet Us: htttp://www.twitter.com/livyourfame