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Osama bin Laden

Also known as Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin ‘Awaḍ bin Lādin, Usama bin Laden٧, Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, Crankshaft

Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. A pan-Islamist, bin Laden organized and funded numerous jihadist or anti-Western militants and terrorist attacks worldwide. Al-Qaeda's attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001 (9/11) directly killed 2,977 victims, causing the global war on terror.

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Osama bin Laden was a Saudi-born militant who founded al-Qaeda in 1988 and led the organization in carrying out terrorist attacks against the United States and other targets worldwide until his death in 2011. His group's September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States killed nearly 3,000 people and triggered the global war on terror, making bin Laden one of the most consequential figures in modern history.

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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States 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 Yemeni Kindite. Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of…

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Turning Point: Generation 9/11 — Self (archive footage)2026
Fortuyn: On-Hollands — Self (archive footage)2025
American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden — Self - Founder of Al-Qaeda (archive footage)2025
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Los 2000 — Self (archive footage)2021
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This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth — Self - Al-Qaeda Leader (archive footage)2019
Код доступа — Self2017
Road to 9/11 — Self (archive footage)2017
Shadow World — Self - al-Qaeda Leader (archive fotage)2016

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Instance of: human
Given name: Osama
Gender: male
Citizenship: statelessness
Place of birth: Riyadh
Place of death: Osama bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad
Father: Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden
Mother: Hamida al-Attas
Occupation: terrorist
Languages spoken: Pashto
Native language: Arabic
Religion: Sunni Islam
Family: Bin-Laden family
Hair colour: black hair
Movement: anti-Zionism
Mass: 75
Conflict: Battle of Jaji
Military rank: Amir
Image: Osama bin Laden portrait.jpg
Height: 195
Number of children: 26
Significant event: killing of Osama bin Laden

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Commons category: Osama bin Laden
date of birth: 1957-03-10
topic's main category: Category:Osama bin Laden
member of: Al-Qaeda
Commons gallery: Osama bin Laden
name in native language: أسامة بن لادن
killed by: Robert James O'Neill
birth name: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن
handedness: left-handedness
end of work period: 2011-05-02
start of work period: 1984-00-00
nickname: Hajj
allegiance: Al-Qaeda
name: Crankshaft
P10632: Osama bin Laden
cause of death: gunshot wound
place of burial: Arabian Sea
date of death: 2011-05-02
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
P8168: Red Star Over China
military casualty classification: killed in action

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Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his death in 2011. A Salafi jihadist, bin Laden worked to establish a pan-Islamist caliphate by using al-Qaeda to organize and fund jihadist militants and terrorists worldwide. Al-Qaeda's terrorist attacks against the United States on 11 September 2001 directly killed 2,977 victims, and caused the global war on terror.

Bin Laden was raised into Sunni Islam by his wealthy family in Saudi Arabia. He left the country during the Soviet–Afghan War (1979–1989) to help the Afghan mujahideen fight the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan. In 1984, he co-founded Maktab al-Khidamat, which recruited foreigners into the Afghan mujahideen while funding and arming them. In 1988, bin Laden founded al-Qaeda. After the Soviets left Afghanistan in 1989, he commanded a mujahideen force in the 1989–1992 Afghan Civil War. Upon returning to Saudi Arabia, he publicly promoted anti-Western causes and opposed the Saudi royal family, leading to his expulsion from the country by its government in 1991. He went back to Afghanistan, then moved to Sudan later that year.

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