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Osama bin Laden was the 17th of an estimated 58 children of construction magnate Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden.
Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was a Yemeni immigrant who founded the multi-billion dollar construction conglomerate, The Saudi Binladin Group.
Bin Laden received an elite, Western-style education in Saudi Arabia and attended a Quaker school in Lebanon for a year.
Bin Laden graduated with a degree in civil engineering in 1979 from King Abdulaziz University in Jedda, Saudi Arabia.
Bin Laden first went to Afghanistan in 1979, where he used supplies from his father's company to help support the jihadist movement against the Soviet Union’s invasion.
The CIA supported extremist Islamic groups in the 1980s -- including bin Laden's -- with weapons and over $1 billion when they were fighting the Soviet Union in Afghanistan.
While his father married 22 times and fathered 58 children, bin Laden married at least five women and fathered approximately 24 children.
Al Qaeda was formed in 1988 under Bin Laden's guidance during the final years of the Soviet-Afghan war with the goal of transforming jihad into a global movement.
Bin Laden received between $25 to $30 million in inheritance after his father's death, which he funneled to jihadist activities in Afghanistan.
Following the conclusion of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the arrival of American troops in Saudi Arabia in 1990 during the first Gulf War, bin Laden made the United States his primary target.
Bin Laden was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991. He and other Al Qaeda members then relocated to Sudan with an estimated $250 million that they used to grow their terror network.
The United States and Saudi Arabia agreed to match funding to jihadi groups in 1991, when over $400 million was given to what would later become the Taliban.
After radical Islamists first struck the World Trade Center with a car bomb in 1993, bin Laden was implicated as a co-conspirator.
Bin Laden was a passionate fan of Arsenal F.C. and reportedly visited their stadium twice during a trip to London in 1994.
In 1998, soon after endorsing a fatwa titled "International Islamic Front for Jihad on the Jews and Crusaders," Al Qaeda detonated truck bombs outside of American embassies in Tanzania and Kenya that killed 224 people in what was their first major attack against the United States
According to Kola Boof, a Sudanese writer who claims to have been made bin Laden's sex slave in the 1990s, he was obsessed with Whitney Houston, and regularly spoke of his dreams of marrying her and killing her husband, Bobby Brown.
After being expelled from Sudan in 1996, he moved to Afghanistan where he cemented an alliance between Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Deadly force against bin Laden had been authorized as far back as the Clinton administration.
In fact, two U.S. missile strikes came extremely close to killing bin Laden in the years just before September 11th. One attack in particular successfully targeted his convoy but blew up
In fact, two U.S. missile strikes came extremely close to killing bin Laden in the years just before September 11th. One attack in particular successfully targeted his convoy but blew up
another vehicle, not the one bin Laden himself was riding in.
Knowing that the United States could not be defeated militarily, bin Laden's long-term strategy was to draw out the United States into a costly war of attrition. He believed he could bankrupt the U.S. economy by forcing the country into wars across the globe.
Bin Laden publicly denied responsibility for the September 11th attacks, only finally taking credit in 2004.
The person who broke the news of bin Laden's death to the public was none other than Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
In a tweet that went out over an hour before the president addressed the nation, Johnson, likely acting on a tip from his Navy SEAL cousin.
In a tweet that went out over an hour before the president addressed the nation, Johnson, likely acting on a tip from his Navy SEAL cousin.
The Center for Public Integrity calculates the cost of tracking and killing Osama Bin Laden at $450 billion, making him the most expensive assassination target in world history. The Atlantic conservatively estimates that bin Laden cost the U.S at least $3 trillion over 15 years
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