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Birth of Osama Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden was born in Riyadh, he was one of 54 children born to Mohammad Bin Laden and his mother was of Syrian origin. -
Death of Osama Bin Laden's father
Mohammad Bin Laden died in a helicopter crash to leave Osama Bin Laden at the age of 11 to inherit $80 million. -
Osama Bin Laden travels to Afghanistan
Osama Bin Laden travels to Afghanistan to respond to a call of duty again the Soviet Union, he took control of 20,000 Islamic soldiers. -
Al-Qaeda
Osama Bin Laden founded the Al-Qaeda. -
Retreat
The Soviet Union withdrew their troops from Afghanistan. -
War
A US-led alliance launches a war against Iraqi forces from Kuwait which Iraq had occupied the previous year. Osama Bin Laden declared jihad against the United States of America because they had forced deployed in Saudi Arabia. -
First Attack
An explosion in the basement of the World Trade Center in New York injured approximately 1,000 people and killed 6 people. The attack is blamed on Al-Qaeda. -
Second Attack
A truck loaded with explosives is driven to destroy a building at the US Military Base of Khobar -
September 11th
September 11th, two US airliners crash into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York, which causes them to collapse. A third hijacked plane crashes into the Pentagon outside of Washington and a fourth hijacked plane crashed in Pennsylvania. The attacks, said to be plotted by Al-Qaeda, result in over 3,000 deaths and Washington release a $25-million-dollar reward for any information of the arrest of Osama Bin Laden. -
Death of Osama Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden is killed in a firefight with covert US forces in a Pakistan in the city of Abbottabad.