Osama Bin Laden| Notable Biographies

(1957/03/10 - 01/05/2011)

Osama Bin Laden
Islamist fanatic

He was born on March 10, 1957 in Riyadh, in the neighbourhood of Al-Malaz, Yeda, Saudi Arabia, in the bosom of a family of yemeni origin.
Son of humble stevedore who managed to become the largest contractor of works of Saudi Arabia. The father of Osama Bin Laden, Sheikh Muhammad Bin Mas'ood Bin Laden, engineer and architect according to some sources, simple peasant according to others, left his home province of Hadramaut, in the center of Yemen, at the beginning of the 1920s. Apparently, settled in Hedjaz (Saudi Arabia) in 1932. There he made fortune and emphasized as a rigorous and honest businessman. His mother, he said, was not the favorite wife of Muhamad Bin Laden, who had 54 children with 11 wives.
The young Osama is educated in the best schools and educational institutes of the Arab world. In 1979, after completing studies at the University of Jeddah, it became part of the staff of the family company's engineers . But his career was truncated in December of the same year, when the red army occupied Afghanistan. Osama left the company to join the armed movement that fought the Russian military presence. In 1980 he began to recruit proafganos guerrillas and establishing their first camps.
He is trained by the CIA and learned by the instruction how to move money through phantom companies and tax havens, how prepare explosives, how to use encrypted codes to communicate and how to hide it. In Afghanistan he met several Islamist leaders that Al Qaeda was founded in 1988, (Base, in Arabic) to coordinate activities, and whose Salafist ideology (an extremely strict version of Islam that many Muslims consider a shunt) later justified their terrorist actions. The majority of its members are veterans of the war in Afghanistan. The Group has bases in Algeria, Uzbekistan, Syria, Pakistan, Indonesia, Philippines, Lebanon, Iraq, Kosovo, Chechnya, the West Bank and Gaza. The definitive break with its American allies occurred in 1990 when in its combat against Iraq, the United States deployed troops in Saudi Arabia, land of the Muslim holy places of Mecca and Medina.
Your organization establishes as priority objectives in the attack to the USA and its allies in the Middle East. In February 1993, it was the first attack on the Twin towers in New York, where there were six people killed and more than a thousand were injured. Took him out with a pickup truck loaded with a ton of explosives, which was stationed in the sub-soil of the building, the FBI suspected that the Group was headed by saudi billionaire involved in anti-American offensive.
Sailing tirelessly between Khartoum and the Afghandesert, "enemy public number one" builds new bases of Islamic guerrillatraining. Islamic fighters take part actively in the war in Bosnia and Chechnya, paid field in Kosovo and Turkestan, moved the ideology of the Universal Islamic Front to Indonesia and the Philippines. At the end of February 2001, the movement of Bin Laden has 37 martyrs, fallen in 17 different fronts.
The "holy war against the Jews and the Crusaders" is no longer a simple illusion. In the spring of 1996, echoing the demands of the members of the bodies of national security, President Clinton authorizes the CIA to use all means to physically eliminate the saudi billionaire and destroy the political and military structure created by this. But none of the mercenaries hired by the American espionage (speaks more than one thousand), manages to accomplish the risky mission.
It has noted him as responsible for the attack of a launch suicidal against the ship American war US Cole in Yemen and the attacks against two of its embassies in Africa. It is estimated that it was in possession of a fortune of $ 300 million.
In 1991 he was expelled from Saudi Arabia for anti-Government activities. He moved to Sudan , where he stayed for five years. Under pressure from the U.S. Government the Sudanese Government expelled him. On September 11, 2001 which killed thousands of people blamed United States for the attack on the Twin towers in New York . His last public appearance dates back to November 10, 2001, when U.S. forces pressure led him to go into hiding in the mountains of Tora Bora. Little by little, their chats were spacing until, starting from October 2004, a long silence gave rise to speculation about his death.
You may 1, 2011, about 11 p.m. local time, President Barack Obama announced in a message to the nation the death of Bin Laden as a result of an operation of the U.S. intelligence in Pakistan. "I can today inform the American people and the world that America has led an operation that has killed Osama Bin Laden, leader of Al Qaeda and the terrorist responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women and children", said Obama in his solemn speech from the White House. According to the President, Bin Laden died as a result of a "firefight" that occurred when a "small team of Americans" was preparing to arrest him at his residence in Abbottabad, city located 35 kilometers from Islamabad. White House sources reported that, in addition to Bin Laden, would have died at least four others who lived with him. Among them, two of his assistants, a son of the leading Islamist, and a woman.