Where on Earth is Osama?

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  • 1957 Born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
  • 1970 High School in Lebanon (1970).
  • 1976 Return to Jeddah (1976) to study in King Abdul-Aziz University.
  • 1981 Osama Bin Laden visits mujahedeen refugees and fighers in Pakistan (1981) who fled after Soviet Invastion of Afghanistan. He sympathizes with them and begins collecting funds and supplies for the mujahedeen.
  • 1982 Osama Bin Laden visits Afghanistan (1982) with construction machinery which he uses to help the mujahedeen.  He later established the guesthouse in Peshawar which becomes the first stop for Arab mujahedeen before they start training or go to the front.  Osama Bin Laden builds his own command and training camps in Afghanistan and begins leading battles himself.  By 1988, his command complex is called "The Base" or Al-Qa´edah (al-Qaeda). He starts recording and tracking visitors to the Base and movement between the guesthouse and camps.
  • 1989 Osama Bin Laden went to South Yemen (1989) and was banned from travel because he gave speeches warning of an imminent invasion by Sadam Hussein, which was embarrassing to the Yemeni leadership who had a good relationship with Hussein.  After the 1990 Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, he volunteered to the king of South Yemen to bring all the Arab mujahedeen to protect the kingdom.
  • 1991 was a busy year for Osama Bin Laden.  With his travel restrictions lifted he South Yemen and goes to Pakistan (1991) and then on to Afghanistan (1991) by late 1991 he goes to Khartoum, Sudan (1991).  
  • 1994 the Saudi´s announce publicly their opposition to Osama Bin Laden and withdraw his citizenship.
  • 1996 Osama Bin Laden flees Sudan and goes to Jalalabad, Afghanistan (1996) and from there he issued his first anti-American message, a Declaration of War, stating his intentions to expel American forces outside the Arabian Peninsula.    By late 1996 the Taliban has taken control of large part of Afghanistan. Mullah Omer, the leader of Taliban, promises him protection.  In 1998 saw Osama Bin Laden forming the "International Front" and announces a "fatwah" sanctioning killing Jews and Americans. 
  • 2001 Osama Bin Laden Laden visited Morocco accompanied with a group of forty "Arab Afghans and allegedly stayed in Morocco for three months.  He supposedly has a bank account in Morocco and the necessary funds to carry out this operation.  main mission in the Moroccan territory was to furnish and help Algerian terrorist groups.
  • February 2002, it is reported that Osama Bin Laden is hiding somewhere in Pakistan (2002).

Who is this Osama?

Osama Bin Laden (bin Ladin) born to Syrian mother in 1957, reportedly the seventh son among 50 brothers and sisters. His father Mohammed Awad bin Laden owned the biggest construction company in the kingdom of South Yemen has many wives.  Young Osama was was raised largely by nurses and nannies.  Osama father is rather fond of him as they both loved camping in the desert, and was pleased with his outdoor skills.  The relationship with his father was probably the most important thing in Osama's life as a young boy, and he felt abandoned when his father died in a helicopter crash when he was only ten.  The household was dispersed, and he was sent to live with his mother, whom he hardly knew.

He became friends with several of King Fahd's sons, with whom he enjoyed many adventures in the countryside. He also picked up their attitudes toward women as objects to be enjoyed for recreational purposes and as status symbols.   He was sent to Lebanon high school to study.  He spent much of his time in fashionable night clubs with other wealthy young playboys, often in the company of blonde prostitutes.  In 1974, at the age of 17, Osama marries a Syrian girl named Najwah, who is a relative and they when on to have 7 children. 

However his study and revelry was rudely interrupted by the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war.  The family brought him back home and sent him to the university in Jeddah.   In Jeddah, Osama was given considerable religious instruction and by this time it widely believed that Osama felt guilty about his indulgent excesses in Lebanon and got deeply religious.  After the Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Osama Bin Laden supported the Afghan resistance.  Osama obtains a degree in public administration from King Abdul-Aziz university, Jeddah in 1981.  Read Inside the Kingdom by Carmen Bin Ladin.

What is Osama occupation?

  • 1993 - Osama Bin Laden claimed responsibility for an attempted bombing on US soldiers in Yemen, and Somalia.  He was involved in the car bombing outside of the World Trade Center in the United States.
  • 1996 - Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the bombing of the Khobar Towers, a United States military complex in Saudi Arabia.  It is alleged that Osama Bin Laden is responsible for a massacre of some German tourists in Egypt. 
  • 1998 - American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania were bombed within 9 minutes of each other killing 224 people. 
  • 2001 - World Trade Center twin towers destroyed by hijaaked commercial airline flights crashing into upper floors. Entire buildings collapsed. Manhattan is evacuated. Commercial airliner also crashes into Pentagon building in Washington, D.C. causing major damage and fire. All federal buildings are closed and evacuated and leaving 2,500 person dead.

How much is Osama worth?

The United States FBI placed a $25 million bounty upon Osama Bin Laden´s head.