Monday, May 2, 2011

Osama bin Laden, who was the most wanted man in the world

Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden, also known as Osama Bin Laden, was regarded as the historic leader of Al Qaida, and as such has been the most wanted man in the world in the last ten years. For the FBI is the principal of 11 September 2001 attacks against the Twin Towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington and is responsible for some of the deadliest attacks carried out against American citizens.

Osama bin Laden, after it initially refused, claimed responsibility for the attacks of 11 September. The U.S. State Department had put a bounty of $ 50 million for his capture "dead or alive." Today, the U.S. president, Barack Obama, has announced the America that Osama bin Laden is dead (Read the report) and that the United States have the body of the man who was regarded by the FBI, the terrorist number one in the world.

He was 54 years. Born in Riyadh on March 10, 1957, Osama bin Laden was the son of a Yemeni, Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden, and a Syrian, Hamid Al Attas, its tenth wife. E 'was 17 or 52-brothers and half brothers. His father, a wealthy manufacturer, was in close relations with the Saudi royal family.

Osama bin Laden, however, was raised by his father (who divorced his wife shortly after his birth), but by his mother, remarried to Saudi Arabia Muhammad al-Attas, with whom he had three sons and a daughter. Osama bin Laden was a graduate in Economics from the University of Jeddah, where he obtained a diploma in civil engineering.

The British press has published his photographs of when, 14 years old, visited for a while the Oxford University in Britain. According to CNN, Bin Laden has had four wives and gave birth to 25 or 26 children. When he was 22 years, in 1979, went to the Afghan mujahideen, then in their war against the Soviet-backed government.

Following that experience, Osama Bin Laden was able to organize the MAK (Maktab al-Khidamat), a movement which aimed to channel resources, weapons and fighters to support the Afghan rebels. When Osama left Mak, came four years after the newly-born terrorist organization Al Qaeda. And at home in Saudi Arabia, was hailed as a hero.

But he soon left the country to move to Sudan. Then it began a more organized and efficient terrorist activities, gradually expanding its range, to give Al Qaeda the contours of an international organization, with activities and extensively throughout the world, from Africa, Europe, the United States.

Not to mention Asia, of course. On 23 February 1988, along with four other signatories, including the Amir, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Bin Laden signed the first 'fatwa', a religious proclamation which stated that "kill the Americans and their allies, civilian and military is an individual duty for every Muslim who can do that in every country where it is possible.

" In the name of Islam. The first American president to take direct action against him was Bill Clinton, who ordered the freezing of his assets. Bin Laden's head was placed by the U.S. government a bounty of $ 25 million. Three years later, here on 11 September 2001. Attacks in which Bin Laden had to know at first that it had no involvement.

He admitted his direct involvement only October 29, 2004, with a video broadcast by Qatar's Al Jazeera, just days before the U.S. presidential election which confirmed the former president, George W. Bush, in his second term in the White House. The final location of Bin Laden on which the intelligence was able to produce evidence as far back as ten years ago, after September 11.

Bin Laden at that time was certainly in Kandahar, Afghanistan. Then, even among conflicting reports, bin Laden had gone missing. The CIA has always considered that the head of Al Qaeda was hiding in Afghanistan and Pakistan, particularly in the mountainous region of Tora Bora. Bin Laden is thought responsible for attacks on U.S.

embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya in '98, after which killed over 200 people. On several occasions in recent years have been broadcast by Arab TV or Internet audio message, Bin Laden the CIA, after examination, has always considered authentic. Tonight, finally, the U.S.

president, Barack Obama, made the announcement historian: "Osama bin Laden is dead."

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