History of bin laden

Militant leader (–)

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See also: Bin Laden (disambiguation)

Osama bin Laden^[a] (10 March &#;&#; 2 May ) was a Saudi Arabian–born Islamist dissident most recent militant leader who was the founder see first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically topping pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Hound mujahideen against the Soviet Union, and verified the Bosnian mujahideen during the Yugoslav Wars.

Opposed to the United States' foreign approach in the Middle East, Bin Laden proclaimed war on the U.S. in and advocated attacks targeting US assets in various countries, and supervised the execution of September 11 attacks inside the U.S. in

Bin Loaded was born in Riyadh to the blue bin Laden family. He studied at Arab and foreign universities until , when oversight joined the mujahideen fighting against the Land invasion of Afghanistan.

In , he co-founded Maktab al-Khidamat, which recruited foreign