Born March 10, 1957
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Died May 2, 2011 (aged 54)
Abbottabad, Pakistan
Cause of death Gunfire
Years active 19792011
Successor Ayman al-Zawahiri
Religion sunni Islamic (Qutbism)
Children abdallah Laden Saad bin Laden
(K.I.A.) Omar bin Laden
Hamza bin Laden (K. I.A.)
MILITARY CARTER
Place of birth Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Place of death Abbottabad, Pakistan 34 10!9 ? N 73 14! 33? E? / ? 34. 16917 N 73. 24 2 E
Resting place North Arabian Sea
Allegiance Al-Qaeda
Battles/wars Soviet war in Afghanistan War on Terror, War in Afghanistan, battle of Tora Bora War in North-West Pakistan, Operation Geronimo, etc.
Osama bin Mohammed Award bin Laden: March 10, 1957 May 2, 2011) was the founder of AL-Qaeda, the organization responsible for the September 11 attacks no the United and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family and an ethnic Yemen Kindite. Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation’s lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. From 2001 to 2011 bin Laden was a major target of the War Terror, which has resulted in a total of between 80, 000 and 12 million civilian deaths in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia between 2001 and 2007. Bin Laden managed to remain in hiding 3. U.S. presidential administrations. In April of 2011, United States Barack Obama was given intelligence about his seclusion at a private residential compound in Abbottabd, Pakistan. On April 29, U.S. Navy Seals in the early morning of May 2, 2011. The firefight that ensued resulted in fatal gunshot wounds to bin Laden’s head and chest. Information found during the SEALs’ intelligence sweeps of the compound is believed to have provided further intelligence about AL-Qaeda. Shortly after his death, bin Laden’s body was transported out to sea for burial, thus ending a manhunt that lasted nearly 12 years.
On may 6, 2011, al-Qaeda acknowledged his death and concurrently vowed to retaliate.
Name: There is no universally accepted standard for transliteratin Arabic words and Arabic
names into English; bin Laden’s name is most frequently renderd “ Osama bin Laden”. The FBI and CIA, as well as other U.S. government agencies, have used either ”Usama bin Laden “ or ” Usama bin Laden “, both of which may be abbreviated as “UBL”. Less common rendering include “Ussamah bin Laden” and, in the French-language media, “Oussama ben Laden “. Other spelling include “Binladen” or, as used by his family in the West, “Binladin”. The decapitalization of bin is based on the convention of leaving short prepositions and articles uncapitalized in surname; however, bin means “ son” and is not a preposition or article. THE spellings with o and e come from a Persian-influenced pronunciation also used in Afghanistan, where bin Laden spent many years, the Arabic liguistic convention would be to refer to him as “Osama” or “Osama bin Laden alone, as “bin Laden’ is a “Osama” or “Osama bin Laden”, not bin Laden alone, as “bin Laden” is a patronymic, not a surname in the Western manner. In its expanded form, it means “Osama, son of Mohammed, son of Awad, son of Laden”. According to bin Laden’s son Omar bin Laden, the family’s hereditary surname is “al-Qahtani” but Lade’s father Mohammed bin Laden never officially registered the name.
Osama bin Laden had assumed the kunyah Abu? Abudallah (“father of Abdallah”). His admirers have referred to him several nicknames, including the”prince” or “Emir” the “Sheik al-Mujahid”, “Hajj”, the “Lion” or “Lion Sheik”, and the “Director”. Childhood, education and personal life: Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, a son of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family, and Mohammed bin Laden’s tenth wife, Hanida al-Attas (then called Alial Ghanem). In a 1998 interview, Osama gave his birth date as March 10, 1957.
Osama parents divorced soon after he was born; Osama’s mother then remarried to Mohammed al-Attas. The coupled had four sister. Osama was raised as a devout Wahhabi Muslim. From 1968 to 1976, he attended the elite secular Al-Thager Model School, he studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University. Some reports suggest he earned a degree in civil engineering in 21979, or a degreee in public administration in 1981. one source described him as “hard working”, another said he left university during his third year without completing a college degree. At university, Osama’s main interest was religion, where he was involved in both “interpreting the Quran and jihad” and charitable work. Other interests included writing poetry, reading with the works of field Marshal Montgomery and Charles de Gaulle said to be among his favourites; black stallions; and football, in which he enjoyed playing at center forward and followed the fortunes of Arsenal F.C. In 1974, at the age 17, Osama married Najwa Ghanem at Latakia; Najwa divorce
d him in 2001 before the attacks. He married five other women. Khadijah Sharif (1983), who divorced him in the 1990s; khairiah Sabar (1987), whose fate is also unknown; an unknown wife with whom his marriage was immediately annulled; and Amal al-Sadah (2000). Through these women bin Laden fathered between 20 and 26 children. Many of bin Laden’s children fled to Iran following the September 11 attacks and as of 2010 Iranian authorities reportedly continued to control their movement.
Bin Laden’s father Mohammed was killed in 1967 an airplane crash in Saudin Arabia when his Amrican pilot misjudged a landing. Osama’a eldest half-brother, Salem bin Laden, the
subsequent head of the bin Laden family, was killed in 1988 near San Antonio, Texas in the
United States, when accidentally flew a plane into power lines. The FBI described Osama as an adult as tall thin, between 6 ft, 4 in and 6 in, (193 198 cm) in height and weight about 165 pounds (75kg). Interviewer Lawrence wright, on the other hand, described him as quiet slender, but not particularly tall. Osama had an olive complexion and was left-handed, usually walking with a cane. He wore a plain white turban and he had stopped wearing the traditional Saudi male wore a plain white turban and he had stopped wearing the traditional Saudi male headdress. Bin Laden was described as soft-spoken and mild mannered in demeanor.
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