Biography of Osama Bin Laden

At the base of terror

10 March 1957 2 November 2011 born on March 10, 1957, 17th of 52 children of richer constructor of Saudi Arabia, would discover his own intense religiosity after being electrocuted by the Islamic holy places of Mecca and Medina. Begins to form his own terrorist network since 1979. In that year, after graduating in engineering at the University of Jeddah, joined the troops of the Afghan resistance, the mujahedin to fight Soviet troops occupying Afghanistan. In 1980, in fact, decides to leave the family home to take part in the Afghan Jihad against the Soviet Union, becoming a hero in the region. An experience that leads him to radicalize his hatred towards the United States but also to take away from the country of origin, the Saudi Arabia, whose Royal family is considered '' too little '' Islamic. After the experience of war against the Soviets, he returned to Saudi Arabia, where he began working for the family construction company, "Saidi Binladen Group". However, at the expense of peaceful existence that was profiled, seems a compulsively devoured by attraction to conflict situations. So you turn on the warm front and joins the forces opposed to the ruling monarchy, Fahd's family, so much so that shortly after being expelled from the country, stripped of Saudi citizenship. In 1996 launched the first "fatwah" religious edict, calling on Muslims to kill American soldiers stationed in Saudi Arabia and Somalia. This is followed by a second in 1998. In the crosshairs of bin Laden, this time, there are also American civilians. According to investigators bin Laden is at the center of an Islamic terrorist coalition boasting numerous allies, from the Egyptian Jihad, Hezbollah Islamic national front iranani, Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia and jihadi groups in Somalia. In October 1993, 18 u.s. servicemen involved in the humanitarian operation in Somalia are killed during an operation in Mogadishu. Bin Laden is sentenced in 1996 for allegedly having trained those responsible for the attack. In the interview with CNN in 1997, admits that to kill the American soldiers were his followers, together with a group of local Muslims. On August 7, 1998, eight years after the deployment of American troops in Saudi Arabia, the explosion of some car bombs blows up American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya and in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing hundreds of people. Bin Laden has denied involvement in these episodes, but according to investigators his responsibility is quite clear from the faxes sent by his London cell to at least three journalistic organizations. Two weeks later, the then us President Bill Clinton (Center at that time Lewinsky scandal), orders a missile attack against some training camps in Afghanistan and a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan. Bin Laden survives the attacks and was accused by the u.n. of organizing the bombings of 1998. On May 29, 2001 four employees are sentenced to life imprisonment. Several other suspects remain awaiting trial. Among these, Ahmed Ressam, confessed to participating in the failed plan to blow up Los Angeles International Airport during the 2000 new year celebrations. Ressam said he had learned to handle guns and bullets in a training camp in Afghanistan, the country that hosts the Saudi billionaire. The rest is recent history. After the tragic attack on the twin towers in New York, bin Laden has become the number one danger for the United States, which have joined forces, along with numerous international allies, to hunt down what is now considered in all respects (also thanks to some video that they see "debate" on the success of the attack), the moral and material of the massacre. The United States President Barack Obama May 2, 2011 announces that Osama Bin Laden was killed by American commandos in a town near Islamabad, after a firefight and that the body was recovered from us military forces. The successor to Bin Laden terrorist group is indicated in the person of Ayman Al-Zawahiri, number two of the movement up to that point.

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