-
Osama Bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia around 1957 to a father of Yemeni origins and a Syrian mother.
-
-
Osama Binm Laden Married a distant relative
-
Bin Laden family expels Osama as shareholder in its complex of businesses.
-
Truck bomb explosions at US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 including 12 Americans. Bin Laden added to FBI's "10 most wanted fugitives" list
-
Hijacked planes destroy the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Centre and target the Pentagon, killing nearly 3,000. President George W Bush says he is wanted "dead or alive"
-
Barack Obama announces Bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan
-
U.S troops and CIA operativesshot and killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad,Pakistan. A city of 500,000 people that houses a military base and a military academy. A gun battle broke out when the troops descended upon the building in which bin Laden was located, and bin Laden was shot in the head.