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Osama bin Laden timeline Key events in the life of the former al-Qaida leader and alleged mastermind of 9/11 attacks * Reuters and agencies * guardian.co.uk <http://www.guardian.co.uk/> , Monday 2 May 2011 09.25 BST * Article history <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-timeline#histor y-link-box> Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden was killed by US forces in Abbottabad in Pakistan. Photograph: Ho/Reuters . 1957 (exact date never confirmed) Born Osama bin Mohammad bin Awad bin Laden in Riyadh, <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/saudiarabia> Saudi Arabia, the seventh son among dozens of children of a wealthy businessman . 1970 Father dies . 1974 Marries distant relative . 1976 Studies economics and management at King Abdul-Aziz University in Jeddah . 1979, December Soviet Union invades Afghanistan . 1984 Bin Laden involved in Peshawar supporting Arab volunteers to fight Soviets: moves between Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Sudan . 1988 Al-Qaida <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/al-qaida> - "the Base" - established in Afghanistan as centre for radical Muslims joined in opposition to the US, Israel and its allies . 1993 Bin Laden family expels Osama as shareholder in its complex of businesses . 1994 Saudi Arabia revokes his citizenship . 1995 Saudi Arabia claims Bin Laden links to Riyadh car bombing, six killed including five Americans, 60 injured . 1996 Bin Laden leaves Sudan for Afghanistan. Issues fatwa against all US military personnel, faxed to supporters across the world . 1998 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 . 2000 Al-Qaida claims responsibility for strike on US destroyer Cole at Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen soldiers killed . 2001, 11 September 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" . 2001, December US backed anti-Taliban forces capture Bin Laden's base in the Tora Bora mountains in Afghanistan, but find no trace of Bin Laden . 2002, September Al-Jazeera broadcasts poor-quality tape claimed to be voice of Bin Laden, praising 9/11 hijackers for changing "the course of history" . 2002, November Al-Qaida claims responsibility for three suicide car bombs at the Mombasa Paradise resort hotel, killing 15 and wounding 80 . 2004, October 18-minute video sent to al-Jazeera in which Bin Laden claims credit for the first time for orchestrating 9/11 and attacks Bush days before US presidential election. Claims inspiration for attack was Israeli aircraft bombing tower blocks in the Lebanon in 1982 . 2007, September Rumours that Bin Laden is dead confounded by first new video in three years, warning US it is vulnerable . 2008, May Bin Laden urges Muslims to break Israeli blockade of Hamas-controlled Gaza strip . 2010, January Audio tape message from bin Laden, claiming responsibility for failed Christmas day attempted bombing of US bound plane. US president Barack Obama claims al-Qaida weakened by US actions . 2010, March Bin Laden claims in taped message that al-Qaida will kill any American prisoners if the US executes September 11 planner Khalid Sheikh Mohammed . 2011, January Bin Laden says in taped message that French hostages held in Niger will not be freed unless France pulls troops out of all Muslim lands . 2011, May 1 Barack Obama announces Bin Laden has been killed in Pakistan <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-timeline> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, discuss-os...@yahoogroups.com. -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor biso...@intellnet.org http://www.intellnet.org Post message: osint@yahoogroups.com Subscribe: osint-subscr...@yahoogroups.com Unsubscribe: osint-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com *** FAIR USE NOTICE. 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