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  Encyclopedia: Osama Bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to Muhammad Awad bin Ladin, a wealthy businessman involved in construction and with close ties to the Saudi royal family.
Bin Laden was rumored in the Pakistani press to have died in 2001 of pulmonary complications incident to catastrophic kidney failure in the absence of available hygienic dialysis.
Bin Laden is often described as lanky — the FBI (A federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice) describes him as tall and thin, being 6' 4" (193 cm) to 6' 6" (198 cm) tall and weighing 160 pounds (75 kg).
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Osama-Bin-Laden   (1081 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bin Laden, who had hated the United States even before the Gulf War, was outraged; he considered the presence of non-Muslim forces on Saudi soil as an affront to himself and to Muslims in general.
Bin Laden is often described as lanky; the FBI describes him as tall and thin, being 6' 4" (193 cm) to 6' 5" (195 cm) tall and weighing 160 pounds (75 kg).
Bin Laden is suspected of funding the 1997 massacre of 62 tourists in Luxor, Egypt conducted by Al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, an Egyptian militant Islamist group.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Osama_bin_Laden   (5268 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden
Considered the world's foremost terrorist, Osama bin Laden is the leader of a terrorist organization known as Al-Qaeda, or "The Base." Bin Laden is the alleged perpetrator of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center, damaged part of the Pentagon, and resulted in a plane crash in Pennsylvania.
Bin Laden has been implicated in a string of deadly attacks on the United States and its allies: the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; the 1998 bombings at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200; and the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen.
Bin Laden also claims responsibility for a 1993 gunfight that killed 18 U.S. troops in Somalia and the 1996 bombing of the Khobar military complex in Saudi Arabia that left 19 U.S. soldiers dead.
www.infoplease.com /spot/osamabinladen.html   (1109 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was born in 1957 and developed a bad case of "middle-child syndrome" -- he was the 17th of 52 children.
At first, bin Laden responded to the invasion with an offer to deploy his mujahideen in defense of Saudi Arabia, but he was spurned in favor of an armed assist from George HW Bush.
The heat began to stick to bin Laden, and in spring 1996, President Bill Clinton signed an executive order authorizing the CIA to destroy bin Laden's network through any available means, and later that year, a secret grand jury began investigating his activities.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/terrorists/osama-bin-laden   (2741 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bin Laden, millionaire with a dangerous grudge - September 27, 2001
Bin Laden was indicted in 1996 on charges of training the people involved in the attack and in a 1997 interview with CNN, bin Laden said his followers, together with local Muslims, killed those troops.
Bin Laden survived the strikes and was indicted by the United States on charges of masterminding the attacks in November 1998.
Bin Laden is suspected to be living in Afghanistan as a guest of its ruling Taliban government.
www.cnn.com /2001/US/09/12/binladen.profile/index.html   (991 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Osama bin Laden (Middle Eastern History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
After the attempted assassination (1995) of Egyptian president Mubarak, to which bin Laden was linked, he was expelled (1996) from Sudan and reestablished himself in Afghanistan, where the extreme Islamic fundamentalist Taliban had come to power.
Bin Laden also is reported to have financed or trained Islamic guerrillas operating in Kosovo, Kashmir, the Philippines, and elsewhere.
Bin Laden, however, was not captured, and Al Qaeda continued to function and launch terror attacks on limited scale.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/B/binLaden.html   (516 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden: Profile
Bin Laden, son of a billionaire Saudi businessman, became involved in the fight against the Soviet Union’s invasion and occupation of Afghanistan, which lasted from 1979 to 1988 and ended with a Soviet defeat at the hands of international militias of Muslim fighters backed by the U.S., Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.
Bin Laden decided to found Al Qaeda, based on personal affiliations created during the fighting in Afghanistan as well as on his own international network, reputation and access to large sums of money.
Bin Laden was also involved in an assassination attempt against Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak in Ethiopia in June 1995.
www.adl.org /terrorism_america/bin_l.asp   (916 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | Bin Laden: Yes, I did it
OSAMA BIN LADEN has for the first time admitted that his al-Qa'eda group carried out the attacks on the World Trade Centre and the Pentagon, the Telegraph can reveal.
In the footage, shot in the Afghan mountains at the end of October, a smiling bin Laden goes on to say that the World Trade Centre's twin towers were a "legitimate target" and the pilots who hijacked the planes were "blessed by Allah".
Bin Laden also makes a direct personal threat against Tony Blair, the Prime Minister, for the first time, and warns nations such as Australia, Germany and Japan to stay out of the conflict.
www.portal.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2001/11/11/wbin11.xml   (877 words)

  
 Bush & Bin Laden - George W. Bush Had Ties to Billionaire bin Laden Brood   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
The unexplained death of Salem, Osama bin Laden's oldest brother, in 1988, brought to an abrupt end a long and intriguing relationship between President Bush and the head of the bin Laden family fortune.
When the family patriarch, Sheik Mohammed bin Laden, died in 1968, he left an industrial and financial empire and a progeny of 54 sons and daughters, the fruit of a number of wives.
Salem bin Laden came to an "unexpected dead end" in a Texas pasture, 11 years after investing in Arbusto, when the ultralight aircraft he was flying crashed into power lines near San Antonio on Memorial Day, 1988.
www.americanfreepress.net /10_07_01/Bush___Bin_Laden_-_George_W__B/bush___bin_laden_-_george_w__b.html   (1570 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | South Asia | Who is Osama Bin Laden?
Osama Bin Laden: Has called for a holy war against the US Osama Bin Laden is both one of the CIA's most wanted men and a hero to many young people in the Arab world.
Bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to work in the family construction business, but was expelled in 1991 because of his anti-government activities there.
Analysts say Bin Laden's organisation is very different from the groups that carried out bombings and hijackings in the past in that it is not a tightly knit group with a clear command structure but a loose coalition of groups operating across continents.
news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/world/south_asia/newsid_155000/155236.stm   (708 words)

  
 The New Yorker: Fact   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Around two dozen other American-based members of the bin Laden family, most of them here to study in colleges and prep schools, were said to be in the United States at the time of the attacks.
Al-Fagih said that the son, Abdullah Osama bin Laden, who is in his early twenties and works for the family business, is one of some fifteen children that Osama has had with three or four wives.
Bin Laden has cast himself as a messianic religious authority, but his degrees are in civil engineering and economics.
www.newyorker.com /fact/content/?011112fa_FACT3   (4300 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden
Bin Laden emerged quickly after the September 11th attack on America as the prime suspect, directing a global network of terrorists from camps in Afghanistan.
Before most of the world knew who Bin Laden was, Thomas Gouttierre, director of the Afghan program at the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), spent several months studying him for the United Nations peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan in 1996 and '97.
The UNO scholar never met Bin Laden but saw his compound in the city of Kandahar and once saw his motorcade pass as the terrorist leader traveled protected by security vehicles.
www.healthandenergy.com /osama_bin_laden.htm   (1751 words)

  
 CNS - WMD Terrorism and Usama Bin Laden
Although Bin Laden has made statements in the past regarding his interest in acquiring weapons of mass destruction for a jihad (holy war) against the West, Al-Fadl’s testimony—if it proves to be credible and accurate—provides important evidence of his actions to do so.
Bin Laden demanded that Al-Fadl return the full amount of money stolen in exchange for “forgiveness,” but he was only able to repay $30,000.
Bin Laden’s aide Mamdouh Mahmud Salim was arrested in Munich, Germany, and charged with acting on behalf of Bin Laden to obtain nuclear materials.
cns.miis.edu /pubs/reports/binladen.htm   (2967 words)

  
 Bin Laden comes home to roost   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
As anyone who has bothered to read this far certainly knows by now, bin Laden is the heir to Saudi construction fortune who, at least since the early 1990s, has used that money to finance countless attacks on U.S. interests and those of its Arab allies around the world.
So bin Laden, along with a small group of Islamic militants from Egypt, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria and Palestinian refugee camps all over the Middle East, became the “reliable” partners of the CIA in its war against Moscow.
In fact, while he returned to his family’s construction business, bin Laden had split from the relatively conventional MAK in 1988 and established a new group, al-Qaida, that included many of the more extreme MAK members he had met in Afghanistan.
www.msnbc.com /news/190144.asp   (978 words)

  
 CBS News | Bin Laden Family Evacuated | September 30, 2001 18:19:55
The young members of the bin Laden family were driven or flown under FBI supervision to a secret place in Texas and then to Washington, The Times reported Sunday.
Osama bin Laden is one of more than 50 children of a Yemeni-born migrant who made a vast fortune building roads and palaces in Saudi Arabia and his extended family spans the globe.
Bin Laden is estranged from his family and from Saudi Arabia, which revoked his citizenship in the early 1990s after he was caught smuggling weapons from Yemen.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/09/30/archive/main313048.shtml   (465 words)

  
 Excerpts from News Reports - Bin Laden in the Balkins
"Bin Laden is believed to have established an Albanian operation in 1994 after telling the government he headed a wealthy Saudi humanitarian agency wanting to help Albania, the newspaper reported.
Apparent confirmation of Bin Laden's activities came earlier this month during the murder trial of Claude Kader, 27, a French national who said he was a member of Bin Laden's Albanian network, the newspaper said.
Bin Laden, believed to be in Afghanistan, is accused by the United States of masterminding bloody bomb attacks against its embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in August of last year.
www.emperors-clothes.com /news/binl.htm   (1483 words)

  
 frontline: hunting bin laden: who is bin laden?: interview with osama bin laden (in may 1998) | PBS
In the first part of this interview which occurred in May 1998, a little over two months before the U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, Osama bin Laden answers questions posed to him by some of his followers at his mountaintop camp in southern Afghanistan.
Or, read the full interview with Bin Laden which starts with questions posed to him by his followers.
bin Laden, you have issued a fatwah calling on Muslims to kill Americans where they can, when they can.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/interview.html   (4345 words)

  
 Bin Laden hints major assassination - The Washington Times: Nation/Politics - August 11, 2004   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Regarding the new bin Laden message, the officials said there are intelligence reports, some of them sketchy, that a new tape from the al Qaeda leader will surface soon.
In the past, video and audio messages by bin Laden or his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, were broadcast days or weeks before an attack, the officials said.
The CIA said that the audiotape probably was the voice of bin Laden and that the mention of the March 11 Madrid train bombings shows that the tape was current.
www.washtimes.com /national/20040811-123531-3824r.htm   (783 words)

  
 ERRI USAMA BIN LADEN PAGE
The message notes further that Usama bin Laden’s pre-US election statement to the American people was a “warning and an invitation to the American people to change the policy of its Government before pain is inflicted upon them as a result of their silence and their approval of the crimes committed by their Government.
Bin Laden, according to Anonymous, is for some odd reason revered in the Islamic world much as Thomas Jefferson or Theodore Roosevelt is in the United States.
Bin Laden and his followers seek, Anonymous contends, to re-create such a victory against the United States by fomenting guerrilla attacks on military and civilian targets in many countries rather than just one.
www.emergency.com /1999/bnldn-pg.htm   (16307 words)

  
 How Osama bin Laden got away | csmonitor.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Bin Laden, according to several fighters and the Saudi financier, later phoned back to the enclave, urging his followers to keep fighting.
Bin Laden's talk with his followers in Tora Bora just a few days after his departure may explain why US intelligence officials said that they thought they heard his voice on Dec. 10, probably on a short-wave transmission.
Mohammed Akram, who had occasionally cooked for bin Laden, says he was fixing dinner in a cave at the end of November, when a huge bomb exploded at the base and blew him some 30 feet back into the mouth of the grotto.
csmonitor.com /2002/0304/p01s03-wosc.html   (4287 words)

  
 Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Richard Dawkins
The drone, the CIA and a botched attempt to kill bin Laden's deputy
Bin Laden must be beside himself with glee.
There was always a risk for Bin Laden that worldwide sympathy for the US might thwart his long-term aim of holy war against the Great Satan.
www.guardian.co.uk /alqaida/story/0,12469,919618,00.html   (1340 words)

  
 Andrew Wheat, 11/9/2001 - The Texas Observer   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
While this argument creates a moral firewall for anyone dealing with the other bin Ladens, the firewall is undermined by circumstantial evidence to the contrary.
The U.S.-led effort to freeze Osama-linked assets reportedly is probing financial transactions of the wider bin Laden clan, which is closely tied to the Saudi royal family.
It was around the time of this investment, incidentally, that Osama bin Laden made his first trip to the Khyber Pass, where he would soon join the Mujaheddin and the CIA in the holy war that expelled the Soviets from Afghanistan.
www.texasobserver.org /showArticle.asp?ArticleID=480   (978 words)

  
 frontline: hunting bin laden | PBS
Funding for FRONTLINE's "Hunting bin Laden" is provided by public television viewers, with additional funding for investigative reporting provided by The Florence and John Schumann Foundation.
Tracing the trail of evidence linking bin Laden to terrorist attacks, this updated report includes interviews with Times reporters Judith Miller and James Risen and former CIA official Larry Johnson.
They discuss the terrorist attacks which are linked, or are likely linked, to bin Laden's complex network of terrorists, outline the elements of his international organization and details of its alliances and tactics, and address the challenges confronting U.S. intelligence in trying to crack it.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen   (223 words)

  
 Telegraph | News | The proof that Saddam worked with bin Laden
The Telegraph found the file on bin Laden inside a folder lying in the rubble of one of the rooms of the destroyed intelligence HQ.
It refers to the planned trip from Sudan by bin Laden's unnamed envoy and refers to the arrangements for his visit.
The file contradicts the claims of Baghdad, bin Laden and many critics of the coalition that there was no link between the Iraqi regime and al-Qa'eda.
www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/04/27/walq27.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/04/27/ixnewstop.html   (956 words)

  
 CRG -- Who Is Osama Bin Laden?
Prime suspect in the New York and Washington terrorists attacks, branded by the FBI as an "international terrorist" for his role in the African US embassy bombings, Saudi born Osama bin Laden was recruited during the Soviet-Afghan war "ironically under the auspices of the CIA, to fight Soviet invaders".
CIA's Beardman confirmed, in this regard, that Osama bin Laden was not aware of the role he was playing on behalf of Washington.
The CIA met Bin Laden while undergoing treatment at an American Hospital last July in Dubai.
www.globalresearch.ca /articles/CHO109C.html   (2845 words)

  
 War on Terror
A BIN LADEN HALLOWEEN - From the creator of Diplomacy and Taliban Twister comes a Halloween greating for Osama and his men!
HUNT AND KILL BIN LADEN - Try to drop the bomb on him while he is out of his cave!
OSAMA BIN WADEEN - de was caught on his webcam dressed like Osama Bin Laden, and this funny music video was created!
www.newgrounds.com /collections/osama.html   (1337 words)

  
 Gaping Holes in the 'Washington Hates bin Laden' Story
Bin Laden spent the 1980s fighting a secular government (which was backed by Soviet troops) in Afghanistan.
Bin laden had worked closely with U.S. forces - namely, the Central Intelligence Agency - as the representative of the Saudi 'royal family' in Afghanistan during the decade when the CIA nurtured Islamist forces to fight Afghan government and Soviet troops.
Osama bin Laden was accused by the U.S. of masterminding that bombing, which killed 19 U.S. airmen and wounded about 500 others.
www.emperors-clothes.com /news/probestop-i.htm   (3397 words)

  
 Falwell-Robertson-Bin Laden Quiz
My intent with this page is not to suggest that Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson are the same as Usama Bin Ladin, that they espouse the same beliefs, or have the same goals.
Some of the translations of Usama Bin Ladin are a bit odd; that's just the way it is.
Jerry Falwell, Pat Robertson and Usama Bin Ladin have a lot in common.
www.funnystrange.com /quiz   (833 words)

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