Usama Bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia and is the leader of a terrorist organization called "Al-Qaeda," or "The Base." He is responsible for multiple terrorist attacks throughout the world. He is on the FBI's Top Ten Most Wanted list for the following: murder of U.S. Nationals outside the United States; Conspiracy to murder U.S. Nationals outside the United States, Attack on a federal facility resulting in death.
In his childhood, he was in one of Saudi Arabia's most wealthiest families and later joined the Islamic resistance to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. He aided in the growth of Al Qaeda and he escaped American attempts to kill him during the late 1990's. But most of all, Americans know him for backing up a plan by Khalid Sheik Mohammed known as the September 11th attacks.
He has evaded capture since then, but he is generally believed to be hiding in the wilderness somewhere in the Waziristan region of Pakistan.
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Osama Bin Ladin was killed on 2 May 2011, shortly after 1am (Pakistan Standard Time).
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Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the September 11, 2001 attack. The attack was plotted in 1999 by one Mohammed Atef, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Osama Bin Laden.
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