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Died: May 2, 2011, Abbottabad, Pakistan (aged 54) Founder: al-Qaeda. Role In: September 11 attacks. USS “Cole” attack. Summarize this Article.
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Photo by Getty Images.) It's the greatest 100 moments as heard on WCCO since 1924 as we celebrate our 100 years. In 2011, after years of fighting in Afghanistan, the news came that the man behind 9/11, Osama Bin Laden, had been found and killed.
On June 30, 2006, Osama bin Laden released an audio recording in which he stated, "Our Islamic nation was surprised to find its knight, the lion of jihad, the man of determination and will, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, killed in a shameful American raid.
Al-Qaeda sought to promote Osama bin Laden’s legacy after his death, maintaining his belief in violence against the United States. Al-Qaeda and its network of affiliates remain a threat. The Islamic State, a terrorist group that split from al-Qaeda in 2014, actively promotes terror attacks globally.
Bin Laden reportedly "hated Ahmad Shah Massoud". Bin Laden was involved in ideological and personal disputes with Massoud and had sided with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar against Massoud in the inner-Afghan conflict since the late 1980s. But Hekmatyar refused to accept a compromise, confident that he would be able to gain sole power in Afghanistan.
Abd al-Hadi al-Iraqi, seen here in a 2019 image provided by his lawyers, described for a U.S. military jury on Monday being blindfolded, stripped, forcibly shaved and photographed naked on two...
1 day ago · Al-Qaeda, broad-based militant Islamist organization founded by Osama bin Laden in the late 1980s. It began as a logistical network to support Muslims fighting against the Soviet Union during the Afghan War and transformed into the active terrorist organization known for carrying out the September 11 attacks of 2001.
