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Bin Laden founded his Al - Qaeda (the base) that would focus on symbolic acts of terrorism instead of military campaigns. Bin Laden vowed that it was al-Qaida, and not the Americans, who would one day prove to be “master of this world.”
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An explosion in the basement of the World Trade Centre in New York kills six people and injuries 1,000. Attack later blamed on Al - Qaeda
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A bomb kills US military advisors to Saudi national guard. Five US soldiers killed and more than 60 people were injured
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A truck loaded with explosives destroys a building at the US military base of Khobar in Saudi Arabia. Nieteen US nationals are killed and 386 were wounded.
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He killed 224 people, most of the Africans, and injurred thousands.
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The US retaliates Bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan and Sudan with cruise misslies killing at least 20 people
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A suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden in Yemen kills 17 US Marines and wounded 38. The attack was attributed to Al - Qaeda
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Two hijacked US airlines crash into the twins towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, which subsequently collepse. A third hijacked plane crashes into the Pentage outside Washigton and a fourth in rural Pennsylvania. The attacks killed around 3,000 people.
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Claims botched Christmas Day bombing of US airlines and threatens more strikes on US tragets.
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Bin Laden killed in a firefight with covert US forces in the Pakistani city of Abbottobad, northeast of the capital Islamabad, Obama announces in a television address