10 Osama Bin Laden Facts
All of you must be aware with the name of the most wanted person ever in the world’s history Osama Bin Laden.So here we have a post about the top 10 facts you didn’t know about Osama Bin Laden. Osama Bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the man was responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the US, as the founder of the jihadist terrorist organization al-Qaeda.He seemed to be in the spotlights for so long. He was responsible for the 1998 US embassy bombings, War in Afghanistan and in North-West Pakistan. Obama declared the death of Osama bin Laden on 1st May, 2011 in Abottabad, Pakistan.
1- Osama Bin Laden was born in a billionaire family, his father had a lot of wives and he was a father of 50 children and Osama was the 17th son.
2- His father was known by the name Mohammad Bin Laden, but it isn’t family name and all of his fifty children adopted that name
3- From 1979 he started working for Jihad and setup many schools for Afghan people. He started an organization who recruited Islamic soldiers. In the mean time in 1989 there formed the most fundamentalist group of Afghanistan called Taliban and it captured the whole Afghanistan.
4- In 1991 he was no more a Saudi citizen as he was doing stuff against the government. He helped the veterans of the Afghan war and those people fought in Bosnia, Chechnya and Somalia.
5- After the 9/11 attack he became the most wanted person of the world
6- In the last year 2010, it was announced by the NATO officials that Osama is hiding in Pakistan, but Pakistani government took this as a threat against Pakistan.
7- United States considered him to be the responsible person of the death of millions of people around the world.
8- One of the major things that Osama said that he left Sudan just to spare the government and his family. But actually in 1996 he was actually expelled from Sudan due to certain incidents.
9- Osama bin Laden used his family fortune to setup training camps in Afghanistan , which was later used as a base from which attacks were planned
10- The US President Obama, declared his death on 1st May, 2011. But mostly reporters and experts say that he has been with the US custody for more than a week and all they wanted was to check the DNA reports and after the clearing, he is declared dead by the US President.
11- Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. In a 1998 interview, he gave his birth date as March 10, 1957
12- His father, Muhammed bin Laden, was killed in 1967 in an airplane crash in Saudi Arabia when his American pilot misjudged a landing.
13- According to CNN national security correspondent David Ensore, as of 2002 bin Laden had married four women and fathered roughly 25 or 26 children.
14- Capturing Osama bin Laden has been an objective of the United States government since the presidency of Bill Clinton.
15- The Taliban refused to extradite Osama Bin Laden. It wasn't until after the bombing of Afghanistan began in October 2001 that the Taliban finally did offer to turn over Osama bin Laden to a third-party country for trial, in return for the US ending the bombing and providing evidence that Osama bin Laden was involved in the 9/11 attacks. This offer was rejected by George W Bush stating that this was no longer negotiable with Bush responding that "There's no need to discuss innocence or guilt. We know he's guilty."
16- October 2009: An article in the British tabloid Daily Mail points out that the theory that Bin Laden died in 2001 "is gaining credence among political commentators, respected academics and even terror experts" and notes that the mounting evidence that supports the claim makes the theory "worthy of examination".
17- On October 18, 2010, an unnamed NATO official suggested that bin Laden is "alive and well and living comfortably" in Pakistan, protected by elements of the country's intelligence services. A senior Pakistani official denied the allegations and said they were designed to put pressure on the Pakistani government ahead of talks aimed at strengthening ties between Pakistan and the United States.
The above facts were collected from the net and subject to correction.
