Who is Osama Bin Laden?

Osama bin Laden was an international terrorist, religious extremist, and founder of the radical jihad organization Al Qaeda. A devout Sunni Muslim, as a student bin Laden was devoted to religious study, and after graduating used his wealth to fund religious resistance fighters in the Soviet War in Afghanistan. Bin Laden was wanted on multiple accounts of mass murder, terrorism and war crimes in many different nations. In 1998 he was placed on the FBI’s ten most wanted list for his involvement in an embassy bombing that killed hundreds. Osama bin Laden’s name is linked with the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001. At the time of this incident he had been wanted by the FBI for years. For a decade the U.S. government dedicated various agencies to tracking down and killing bin Laden. In April 2011, President Obama ordered a covert operation to kill or capture the wanted terrorist, and on May 2nd US military officials successfully carried out the mission in bin Laden’s Abbottabad compound in Pakistan

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