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Osama bin Laden (born 1957, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia—died May 2, 2011, Abbottabad, Pakistan) was the founder of the militant Islamist organization al-Qaeda and mastermind of numerous terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers, including the 2000 suicide bombing of the U.S. warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden and the ...
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Sayyid Quṭb (born Oct. 9, 1906, near Asyūṭ, Egypt—died Aug....
- Saddam Hussein
He joined the Baʿath Party in 1957. In 1959 he participated...
- Sayyid Quṭb
Al-Qaeda, broad-based militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s. It began as a logistical network to support Muslims fighting against the Soviet Union during the Afghan War and transformed into the active terrorist organization known for carrying out the September 11 attacks of 2001.
Explore the untold story of the CIA's clandestine operation to capture Osama Bin Laden in this revealing episode of the Declassified Series. From the inception of Alec Station to the dramatic...
Around 2000, the UN drew up sanctions against officials and leaders of Taliban, because of their harbouring Osama bin Laden. Several of the Taliban leaders have subsequently been killed.
The Islamic State, a terrorist group that split from al-Qaeda in 2014, actively promotes terror attacks globally. Meanwhile, some lone actors, inspired by bin Laden and online propaganda aligned with his views, carry out their own terrorist plots.
Hadramout was the ancestral home of Osama bin Laden, and the province has become an AQAP stronghold over the past several years. On 16 January 2014, al-Qaeda militants killed 10 Yemeni soldiers in three simultaneous attacks on army positions in Al Bayda Governorate. Eight extremists were also killed in the assaults, which prompted further ...
Osama bin Laden. Agency files show that it is believed Osama bin Laden was funding the Afghan rebels against the USSR in the 1980s. In 1991, bin Laden returned to his native Saudi Arabia protesting the presence of troops, and Operation Desert Storm. He was expelled from the country. In 1996, the CIA created a team to hunt bin Laden.
