He was born in 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. and died on 2 May 2011, shot to death. He's best known as the mastermind of the 11 September 2001 attacks. His name Also known as Usama bin Laden, bin Laden Ussamah.
Osama bin Laden was America's most-wanted terrorist from the moment he masterminded the attacks of September 11th in 2001 until he was shot and killed by an American military team in Pakistan on 2 May 2011. Osama Bin Laden joined the Afghanistani resistance in 1979 and became a commander in the guerilla wars against the Soviet Union in the 1980s. After that war ended, Osama bin Laden founded a loose organization of pro-Islamic terrorists known as al-Qaeda ("the base"). He then joined with the Egyptian militants led by Ayman al-Zawahiri to form an international group whose goals included driving the United States out of the Middle East and overthrowing the government of Saudi Arabia. Attacks which Osama bin Laden is believed to have plotted or inspired include the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center, the 1995 truck bombing of a Saudi National Guard training center, and the 1998 explosions at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. (Bin Laden was added to the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted Fugitive" list after the embassy attacks.) Along with captured suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he was responsible for the September 2001 attacks that crippled the Pentagon and destroyed New York's World Trade Center. Despite intense American efforts in the following years, bin Laden was not found or captured until 2011, when American intelligence learned he was living in Abbottabad, Pakistan. On 2 May 2011 a team of Navy SEALS, acting on orders from President Barack Obama, attacked bin Laden's compound and killed him in a gun battle. Osama bin Laden's body was taken by the U.S. forces and buried at sea later that day.
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