I was gone from school today due to illness. The notes below are provided by a student who was in class this day.
Osama Bin Laden
- Born March 10, 1957
- in Saudi Arabia
- 7th of 50 children
- 14 invited to join Islamic study group - learned about jihad - holy war
- began training mujahedeen - fight back against Soviets
- well educated
- Saudi's abandoned him after he began talking about U.S. badly
- 1993 he joined with al-Qaeda - empowered it
- When he started global attacks family abandoned him - cut of 7 million dollar yearly wealth
- after 9/11 went into hiding for 10 years
- shot and killed by U.S. in May 2011
Soviet Union Invasion of Afghanistan
- Soviet was invited in to invade Afghanistan
- Because Afghan (communist) government wanted to remain in control
- from 1979 Afghanistan has had many problems
- Soviet Union was "gone" - mainly due to financial loss from Afghan war - Afghan war in general
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