Bin Laden

Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden (born 10 March 1957), well-known as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is an Islamic terrorist, who is believed to be the founder of the Jihadist organization: Al-Qaeda. Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His father Muhammed Awad bin Laden was a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family. He studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University. At university, bin Laden's main interest was religion, where he was involved in both "interpreting the Quran and jihad" and charitable work.
In 1974, at the age of seventeen, bin Laden married his first wife Najwa Ghanem at Latakia. Bin Laden is reported to have married four other women and he has fathered anywhere from 12 to 24 children.
Like other Islamists and Islamic fundamentalists, Bin Laden believes that the restoration of Sharia law will set things right in the Muslim world, and that all other ideologie must be opposed. He believes Afghanistan under the rule of Mullah Omar's Taliban was "the only Islamic country" in the Muslim world. He is very anti-Jewish and he, always, stated the hope to eliminate the state of Israel.
Militant activity of Osama bin Laden:
- Bin Laden's wealth and connections assisted his interest in supporting the mujahideen, Muslim guerrillas fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan
- Alleged CIA involvement (Osama bin Laden and his group are "blowback" from CIA's Operation Cyclone to help the Afghan mujahideen is a matter of some debate)
- Formation of Al-Qaeda
- Refuge in Afghanistan
- Attacks on United States targets: it is believed that the first terrorist attack involving bin Laden was the 29 December 1992, bombing of the Gold Mihor Hotel in Aden, Yemen; he has been indicted in United States federal court for his alleged involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Dar es Salaam Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, and is on the US Federal Bureau of Investigation's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list.
- Responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attacks (the FBI stated that evidence linking Al-Qaeda and bin Laden to the attacks of September 11 is clear and irrefutable).
Reports of his death: Reports alleging Osama bin Laden's death have circulated since late 2001.
April 2005: The Sydney Morning Herald stated "Dr Clive Williams, director of terrorism studies at the Australian National University, says documents provided by an Indian colleague suggested bin Laden died of massive organ failure in April last year … 'It's hard to prove or disprove these things because there hasn't really been anything that allows you to make a judgment one way or the other', Dr. Williams said."[
August 2006: On 23 September 2006, the French newspaper L'Est Républicain quoted a report from the French secret service (DGSE) stating that Osama bin Laden had died in Pakistan on 23 August 2006
November 2007: In an interview with political interviewer David Frost, taken on November 2, 2007, the Pakistani politician, and Pakistan Peoples Party chairwoman, Benazir Bhutto, claimed that bin Laden had been murdered by Omar Sheikh.

Peculiarity: Left-hander