Osama Bin Laden

By Evan44

  • Born

    Osama was born in Riyadh, Saudi arabia

  • Osama's College

    Bin Laden graduates from King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah with a degree in public administration and economics. He goes to Afghanistan to join the "jihad," or "holy war," against the Soviet Union. He remains there for a decade, using construction equipment from his family's business to help the Muslim guerrilla forces build shelters, tunnels and roads through the rugged Afghan mountains, and at times taking part in battle.
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    Osama joins the fight in the "holy war"

    Bin Laden raises money for the mujahedeen fighting in Afghanistan and also provides them with logistical and humanitarian aid. During these years, he also personally fights in battles against the Soviet Union.

  • The Birth of Al-Quada

    Bin Laden founds a group he names al Qaeda, which in Arabic means "the base."

  • Soviet Union leaves

    The Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan. Bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia to work for the family construction firm, the Bin Laden Group.

  • USA invades

    Following the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, U.S. troops arrive in Saudi Arabia in order to have a close base to eventually go after Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's troops. Bin Laden becomes outraged at the U.S. forces' presence near the Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina.

  • The start of His terror

    Bin Laden is expelled from Saudi Arabia by its regime. Eventually he and his followers relocate to Sudan, funded by assets that had grown to as much as $20 million, according to lawyers familiar with the family forture. In that African nation, al Qaeda begins to evolve into a terror network.

  • Osama helps the enemy

    U.S. forces land in Somalia, spearheading a U.N.-authorized humanitarian plan to bring in famine relief supplies. Part of their challenge is disarming the various warlords who control the country. Prosecutors charge that bin Laden threw himself into the conflict, sending some of his followers to Somalia to train the warlords to fight the U.S. troops.

  • First world trade center attack

    A bomb explodes at the World Trade Center in New York City, killing six and wounding hundreds. Six Muslim radicals, who U.S. officials suspect have links to bin Laden, are eventually convicted for the bombing. Bin Laden is later named along with many others as an unindicted co-conspirator in that case.

  • Osama vs Saudi

    Osama is disowned by his family and his hhome contry after he kills americans and insults them assassination attemts are made on him as his following grows hes boost up is personal protect and starts hiding

  • Osamas Attacks intensify

    Bin Laden declares a holy war against U.S. forces. He signs and issues a declaration of jihad from Afghanistan titled, "Message from Osama bin Laden to his Muslim Brothers in the Whole World and Especially in the Arabian Peninsula: Declaration of Jihad Against the Americans Occupying the Land of the Two Holy Mosques; Expel the Heretics from the Arabian Peninsula."

  • Attack on the US embassy

    A pair of truck bombs explodes outside the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. Some 224 people are killed.

  • Osama is a top tne

    Bin Laden appears for the first time on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted fugitives list.

  • Yemen Attack

    Bin Laden is linked to the attack on the USS Cole in Yemen, which left 17 U.S. sailors dead and another 39 injured.

  • 9/11

    Four U.S. commercial aircraft are commandered in flight by 19 hijackers. Two are flown into the World Trade Center in New York, another into the Pentagon just outside Washington, and the fourth, headed to an unknown target, crashes in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. More than 3,000 people are killed. Soon thereafter, the U.S. government names bin Laden as a prime suspect.

  • osama goes into hiding

    A U.S. government official admits a "lack of intelligence" on bin Laden's whereabouts, noting he could be in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Defense Secretary Robert Gates tells ABC that "it's been years" since there was good intelligence on the al Qaeda leader's location.

  • Planning

    President Obama chairs the first of a series of National Security Council meetings on a possible operation to target bin Laden. In time, he becomes more confident that the information on the terrorist leader's whereabouts is credible and that the operation can be accomplished.

  • Osama meets seal team 6

    In the early morning, "a small team of Americans" -- special operations forces, including U.S. Navy SEALs -- fly by helicopter into a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, according to U.S. authorities. During a 40-minute operation, bin Laden resists and is killed in a firefight, as were one woman and three other adult males, one of them believed to be an adult son of the al Qaeda leader.

  • Obama found Osama

    U.S. President Barack Obama is briefed on a "possible lead" about the location of bin Laden. It is in Abbottabad, an area 30 to 35 miles north of Islamabad where a trusted bin Laden courier and his brother have been located. (After bin Laden's death nine months later, the president will reveal that intelligence agents pressed to get more information in the subsequent months).

  • Died

    Abbottabad,Pakistan