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Al Qaeda is Founded
Osama Bin Laden, the founder of al Qaeda, the jihadist organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with a lot more mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. -
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The First of Many
On this date, the first terrorist attacks were carried out by Al Qaeda ever on two hotels American soldiers were supposed to be at in Aden, Yemen. Although no American deaths, this was the pivotal moment where Al Qaeda changed from fighting armies to killing civilians. -
Karma
Ramzi Yousef, the mastermind of the 9/11 bombings is planting a bomb and dies as it explodes in his face. -
President Clinton
President Clinton was going to Manila and was being targeted. Tapes of him were being sent to Bin laden, the secret service later found out about the plot to kill the president but had no idea at the time. -
U.S. Embasy bombings
Hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the United States embassies in the East African capitals of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya. -
USS Cole Bombing
The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack against the United States Navy. Seventeen American sailors were killed, and 39 were injured. -
9/11
Leader Osama Bin Laden ordered the most devastating terrorist attacks in U.S. history killing abround 3000 American civilians. -
Al Qaeda Strategy
a newspaper company in London extracts a document from Saif al-Adel's document "Al Quaeda's Strategy to the Year 2020." which summarizes this strategy as comprising five stages to rid the Ummah from all forms of oppression. -
Death of Osama Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden was lilled by a United States special forces military unit. The operation was code-named Operation Neptune Spear, and ordered by President Barack Obama. -
New Leader
Ayman al-Zawahiri (Egyptian) is named the new Head of Al Qaeda following Osama Bin Laden's death.
