History of Osama Bin Laden
Personally I think that Bin Laden could have been a good guy, but he got mixed up in some really bad things and with his parents disowning him well that must have been really hard on him one of my parents just disowned me and I know what it did to me so I can only imagine what it did to him because both of his parents left not just one. I’m not saying that he should use this as an excuse to why he was the way he was, but maybe we could have gone a little easier with him because I think at times he was just trying to do what he thought was right and that he never realized what bad he was doing because he was just worried about making life easier for his people. I also think that he shouldn’t have ran away when every one wanted to kill him because maybe if he would have just explained his self then he would have sat in jail and not get hung, I also do not agree with their being videos online of him being hung because it’s not the right thing to do. If our president was killed I don’t think many people would want to watch a video of it happening.
Born in 1957 he was the seventh son he had 49 brothers and sisters. He was 13 when he lost his father, he was 17 when he got married the girl he was marrying was a relative, he had to grow up as a religious boy and committee to the early marriage because it was a factor of protecting him from corruption. He got his primary, secondary, and his university education in Jeddah (port city in western Saudi Arabia on the Red Sea near Mecca) in 1979, he went to Afghanistan to join the holy war or “jihad” against the Soviet Union he remained there for a decade, while he was there he used construction equipment from his family’s business to help the Muslim guerrilla forces build shelters, tunnels, and roads through the rugged Afghan mountains.
In 1980 Bin Laden raises money for the mujahedeen fighting in Afghan and also provided them with logistical and humanitarian aid, in 1988 he found a group he calls al Qaeda which really means the base, in 1989 the Soviet Union leaves Afghan and he returns to Saudi Arabia to work for the family business which was a construction firm called the Bin Laden Group, in August of 1990 the U.S troops arrive in Saudi Arabia so they can have a close base so they can eventually go after Iraqi’s troops, in 1991 he is expelled from Saudi Arabia and him and his followers go back to Sundan and al Qaeda begins to evolve into a terror network, on February 1993 he is named long with many others as an unindicted co-conspirator in the case of a bomb exploding at the World Trade Center in New York City, in 1994 his family disowns him.
In 1996 U.S authorities indict Bin Laden on charges he helped train the people involved in the 1993 Somalia attack, August 1996 he declares holy war against U.S. forces, he also signs and issues a declaration of jihad from Afghan, 1997 he has his first interview and he tells Peter Bergen that the United States is unjust criminal and tyrannical that the U.S has set a double standard and they are calling whoever goes against its injustice a terrorist, November 1998 he is indicted in the U.S on 224 counts of murder,
In addition to the general Islamic commitment he started forming an Islamic responsibility at an early age. His father used to host hundreds of pilgrims during Hajj season from all over the world. This habit went on even after his father’s death because of his older brothers. At the secondary school and university he got the main trend of Muslim Brotherhood. There was nothing extraordinary about his personality. 2011 they found Osama and he was killed, you can even find videos of him being hung.
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