Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden[b] (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) 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 ...
Osama bin Laden was a violent terrorist and founder of al Qaeda who killed thousands of innocent men, women, and children before his death in 2011.
Osama bin Laden was a terrorist who formed the al Qaeda network and planned the 9/11 attacks against America. Read about his spouses, children, death, and more.
Osama bin Laden was born in 1957 to a Yemeni bricklayer. He was one of the youngest of nearly fifty children. Bin Laden grew up in Saudi Arabia, where his father founded a construction firm that would become the largest in the desert kingdom. He inherited millions of dollars after his father’s death and graduated from one of the kingdom’s leading universities with a degree in civil ...
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that Osama bin Laden's death delivered a message to terrorist groups that they cannot defeat the United States. Video courtesy of Sky News.
Here’s a look at the death of Osama bin Laden. On , Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden was killed by US Special Forces during an early morning raid at a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Facts ...
There is a saying on Wall Street that even a dead cat will bounce. How high, then, should the market bounce on the death of Osama bin Laden? As of mid-day on Monday, the stock market was up a bit. The ...