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Osama Bin Mohammed Bin Awad Bin Laden was born on March 10 1957 to a family that had billions of dollars. Osama went to school in his country. He attended King Abdulaziz University until 1979 when he joined forces with mujahideen and gave the money to give to the fighters in mujahideen. He then gained popularity from other arabs. He ended up having twenty-five children that they know of and with those children he had five wives.

Osama then went on to form Al Qaeda in 1988. He then was banished from Saudi Arabia in 1992 and moved his base to Sudan. In 1996 the United States pressured him into leaving Sudan. He then went on to establish a base in Afghanistan where he went onto declaring war on the United States. He started series of attacks and related bombings on the United States.

Bin Laden was put on the Federal Bureau of Investigations top ten most wanted fugitives and terrorists. The FBI put out a twenty-five million dollar bounty in search for Osama. On May 2nd 2011 just four months away from the 10 year anniversary of the nine eleven attacks. Osama was shot and killed in a private residential compound in Pakistan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_bin_LadenOsama bin Laden in 1997

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  • Good info but I would have to say it all feels rushed. Expand a little bit more on specific topics. Be sure to also include your personal thoughts/opinions.

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