Osama bin Laden’s life

Osama bin Laden: who was he?

Osama bin Laden, who was born in 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and passed away on May 2, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan, was the brains behind several terrorist attacks against the United States and other Western powers. These attacks included the suicide bombing of the US warship Cole in the Yemeni port of Aden in 2000, as well as the attacks on the Pentagon near Washington, D.C., and the World Trade Centre in New York City on September 11, 2001.

Childhood

Muhammad bin Laden, a self-made businessman who came to Saudi Arabia from Yemen as a laborer and eventually climbed to oversee significant building projects for the Saudi royal family, had more than 50 offspring, including Bin Laden. Muhammad’s company had grown to become one of the biggest construction companies in the Middle East by the time of his death in an airplane crash in 1967, and the bin Laden family had become close to the Saudi royal family.

Osama bin Laden: The Concept of Pan-Islamism

Islam was more than just a religion to bin Laden; it formed his political views and affected every choice he made. He started following the extreme pan-Islamist philosopher Abdullah Azzam while attending college in the late 1970s. Azzam held the view that all Muslims ought to launch a holy war, or jihad, to establish a unified Islamic state. The youthful bin Laden found appeal in this notion since he perceived an increasing Western influence on Middle Eastern culture.
Following the invasion of Afghanistan by Soviet forces in 1979, Azzam and bin Laden went to Peshawar, a Pakistani city bordering Afghanistan, to join the resistance. Although they refrained from engaging in combat, they leveraged their vast network to secure material and ethical backing for the mujahideen, or insurgents in Afghanistan. They also urged young men to join the Afghan jihad by traveling from all over the Middle East. Their group, known as the Maktab al-Khidamat (MAK), supplied the migrant warriors, often known as “Afghan Arabs,” with supplies and training. It also acted as a global recruitment network, with offices as far afield as Tucson, Arizona, and Brooklyn. Most significantly, it displayed Osama Bin Laden and his associates.

Establishing Al Qaeda

Al Qaeda, often known as “the base,” was founded by bin Laden in 1988 with the intention of concentrating on symbolic acts of terrorism as opposed to military operations. In order to increase funding for this new and more difficult objective, bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia when the Soviet Union withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989. The relatively pro-Western Saudi royal family, however, attempted to silence bin Laden as much as possible out of concern that his vehement pan-Islamist speech may spark unrest in the kingdom. When Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, they refused his offer to send “Afghan Arabs” to patrol the border and confiscated his passport. To make matters worse, they then turned to the “infidel” United States for assistance. Enraged by his rejection, bin Laden declared that al Qaeda, not the Americans, would eventually establish itself as the “master of this world.”

Bin Laden departed Saudi Arabia for the more extremist Islamic Sudan early in the following year. Following an additional year of planning, al Qaeda launched its first attack: In Aden, Yemen, a hotel that had been housing US Marines en route to a peacekeeping assignment in Somalia was struck by a bomb. (Two Austrian visitors perished in the explosion; no Americans died.)thought that the implementation of pan-Islamism was feasible.

Iraqi invasion

He perceived the Iraqi invasion as fulfilling his prophecy and responded quickly to it. Without delay, he sent the king another letter that included detailed recommendations on how to defend the nation against Iraqi forces that could advance. He offered to bring all of the Arab mujahedeen to protect the kingdom, in addition to discussing several military strategies. When the regime received that letter in the early days of the incident, it responded with consideration!

He was waiting for a call to gather his soldiers and supplies when he received the news that changed his life forever. It’s the arrival of the Americans. That was a stunning moment, according to him every time. He was depressed and believed that tactics needed to be adjusted. He began advocating through Muslim activists and academics rather than writing to the king or other members of the royal family. He was able to get a fatwah—that preparation and training are a religious obligation—from one of the more senior scholars. He disseminated that fatwah very away and persuaded others to receive their instruction in Afghanistan. An estimated 4,000 people traveled to Afghanistan as a result of the fatwah. Because of the regime’s displeasure with his actions, he was only allowed to travel within Jeddah. He received warnings and was called in twice to answer questions regarding some of his comments and actions. The National Guard invaded his farm in the Jeddah suburb in an attempt to frighten him. When told that he had not been there during the raid, he became furious. He sent Prince Abdullah a complaint letter. Abdullah apologized, said he didn’t know, and vowed to punish those accountably.

The Osama bin Laden Global Jihad

Feeling more confident, bin Laden and his allies devoted themselves to deadly jihad. For instance, in 1993, they provided weapons and training to the Somali insurgents who massacred eighteen US soldiers in Mogadishu. They were also connected to the bombing of the World Trade Centre in New York in 1993, the 1995 assassination attempt on Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, the 1996 truck bombing that destroyed the Khobar Towers, an American military residence in Dharan, and the 1993 bombing of a U.S. National Guard training center in Riyadh.

‘Public Enemy #1’ is Osama bin Laden.

In 1996, bin Laden relocated from Sudan to Afghanistan in an effort to avoid being arrested and attract more people to al Qaeda’s lethal cause. In the meantime, al Qaeda’s strikes kept getting bigger. On August 7, 1998, bombs detonated simultaneously in the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, where they caused 11 fatalities and 85 injuries, and in Nairobi, Kenya, where they caused 213 deaths and 4, 500 injuries. The bombs were claimed as the work of Al Qaeda.

Then, on October 12, 2000, the U.S.S. Cole, an American military destroyer berthed off the coast of Yemen, was struck by a small boat that was packed with explosives. There were 17 sailors slain and 38 injured. It was an incident for which Bin Laden also claimed credit.

In the US, a federal grand jury indicted bin Laden on crimes connected to the embassy attacks, but a trial was impossible without a defendant. Al Qaeda agents, meanwhile, were complex at work organizing the most significant attack of all, the September 11, 2001 attacks on the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre.

Even during the crazed “global war on terror” that followed September 11, 2001, bin Laden managed to avoid capture. He stayed in hiding for about a decade, spreading his message through radio and television, recruiting eager young jihadis, and preparing more attacks. During that time, he issued fatwas and taunts. In the meantime, his hiding place was unsuccessfully sought after by the CIA and other intelligence agencies.

Ultimately, in August 2010, they located bin Laden at a facility around 35 miles from Islamabad in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Drones took aerial photos of the residence while CIA personnel kept a close eye on it for several months. It was time to move at last. A group of Navy SEALs stormed into the facility on May 2, 2011 (May 1 in the US). With an assault rifle and a handgun close by, they discovered the al Qaeda chief in an upstairs bedroom. They immediately killed him by shooting him in the head and chest. In a nationally televised speech that evening, President Obama declared, “Justice has been done.”

Death of Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, was killed by American forces on May 1, 2011, in his compound close to Islamabad, Pakistan. According to intelligence sources, bin Laden is thought to have been behind several lethal acts of terrorism, such as the assaults on the Pentagon and the World Trade Centre on September 11, 2001, and the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.