Osama bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957 into a very rich Islamic family in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Osamas father, Muhammed bin Laden, obtained his riches by being the building contractor for the Saudi royal family during the 1950's. Muhammed is unofficially said to have had 55 children with his 22 wives. Osama was his seventeenth child. Shortly after being born Ossamas parents divorced and his mother remarried to Muhammed al-Attas, a man who worked for Muhammed bin Laden. He already had 4 children, so when Osama moved in he had three stepbrothers and a stepsister. When Osama was 17 he married his first cousin and later went on to Marie 3 other women. He was the father of anywhere form 12-24 children.
Osama was the founder of the organisation called al-Qaeda. He issued two fatwas, in 1996 and 1998, saying that muslims should kill civilians and military personnel from the US and allied countries until they withdraw forces from Islamic countries. In 1998 he was blamed by the US for the bombing of the US embassy and made it onto the top 10 most wanted fugitives list. On September 11, 2001 Osama takes credit for the attacks on the twin towers and the United States. The attacks involved suicide pilots hijacking four American air planes and crashing them into various important buildings in the US. The targeted buildings were the two World Trade buildings, the Pentagon and the White house (although the plane for the white house never reached its destination). To this day Osama bin Laden has not been brought to justice for his unspeakable crimes, or even found for that matter.
I think Osama had the right idea to want American and Allied forces out of his country but he went to far in bombing the US embassy and way, way to far in planning and carrying out his planed attacks on the United States.
Osama was the founder of the organisation called al-Qaeda. He issued two fatwas, in 1996 and 1998, saying that muslims should kill civilians and military personnel from the US and allied countries until they withdraw forces from Islamic countries. In 1998 he was blamed by the US for the bombing of the US embassy and made it onto the top 10 most wanted fugitives list. On September 11, 2001 Osama takes credit for the attacks on the twin towers and the United States. The attacks involved suicide pilots hijacking four American air planes and crashing them into various important buildings in the US. The targeted buildings were the two World Trade buildings, the Pentagon and the White house (although the plane for the white house never reached its destination). To this day Osama bin Laden has not been brought to justice for his unspeakable crimes, or even found for that matter.
I think Osama had the right idea to want American and Allied forces out of his country but he went to far in bombing the US embassy and way, way to far in planning and carrying out his planed attacks on the United States.
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