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.
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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.
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- published: 08 May 2015
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