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Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden[1][8] /ˈsɑːmə bɪn ˈlɑːdən/ (Arabicأسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن‎, Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin; March 10, 1957 – May 2, 2011),[9] also rendered Usama bin Ladin, was a founder of the pan-Islamic militant organization al-Qaeda, designated as a terrorist group by the United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union, and various countries.

Osama bin Laden
أسامة بن لادن
Osama bin Laden portrait.jpg
bin Laden c. 1997–98
1st General Emir of al-Qaeda
In office
August 11, 1988 – May 2, 2011
Preceded byPosition created
Succeeded byAyman al-Zawahiri
Personal details
Born
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Ladin[1]

March 10, 1957
RiyadhSaudi Arabia
DiedMay 2, 2011 (aged 54)
AbbottabadKhyber PakhtunkhwaPakistan
Cause of deathGunshot wound
CitizenshipSaudi Arabian (1957–1994)
Stateless (1994–2011)[2]
Height1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[7]
Spouse(s)
 
(
m. 1974⁠–⁠2001)

Khadijah Sharif
 
(
m. 1983⁠–⁠1990)

Khairiah Sabar
 
(
m. 1985⁠–⁠2011)

Siham Sabar
 
(
m. 1987⁠–⁠2011)

Amal Ahmed al-Sadah
 
(
m. 2000⁠–⁠2011)
Children20–26; including AbdallahSaadOmar and Hamza
ReligionIslam (Wahhabism/Salafism)[3][4][5][6]
Military service
Allegiance Maktab al-Khidamat (1984–1988)
 Al-Qaeda (1988–2011)
Years of service1984–2011
RankGeneral Emir of al-Qaeda
Battles/warsSoviet War

Global War on Terrorism

He was a Saudi Arabian citizen until 1994 (stateless thereafter) and a member of the wealthy bin Laden family.[10] Bin Laden's father was Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a Saudi millionaire from Hadhramaut, Yemen, and the founder of the construction company, Saudi Binladin Group.[11] His mother, Alia Ghanem, was from a secular middle-class family in Latakia, Syria.[12] He was born in Saudi Arabia and studied at university in the country until 1979, when he joined Mujahideen forces in Pakistan fighting against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. He helped to fund the Mujahideen by funneling arms, money and fighters from the Arab world into Afghanistan, and gained popularity among many Arabs.[13] In 1988, he formed al-Qaeda.[14] He was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992, and shifted his base to Sudan, until U.S. pressure forced him to leave Sudan in 1996. After establishing a new base in Afghanistan, he declared a war against the United States, initiating a series of bombings and related attacks.[15] Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings.[16][17][18]

Bin Laden is most well known for his role in masterminding the September 11 attacks, which resulted in the deaths of nearly 3,000 and prompted the United States to initiate the War on Terror. He subsequently became the subject of a decade-long international manhunt. From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the United States, as the FBI offered a $25 million bounty in their search for him.[19] On May 2, 2011,[20] bin Laden was shot and killed[21] by US Navy SEALs inside a private residential compound in AbbottabadPakistan, where he lived with a local family from Waziristan. The covert operation was conducted by members of the United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group (SEAL Team Six) and Central Intelligence Agency SAD/SOG operators on the orders of U.S. President Barack Obama.[22] Under his leadership, the al-Qaeda organization was responsible for, in addition to the September 11 attacks in the United States, many other mass-casualty attacks worldwide.[23][24][25]

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