Born Osama bin Laden in 1957, the son of Yemeni origin, named Mohammed Awad bin Laden, who arrived in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from Yemen's Hadramout in 1930, almost. As the mother of Osama, is of Syrian origin, knowing that his father married more than one woman.
Sort Osama in the 17 family among his brothers and sisters of total 52.
Osama received his schooling in the city of Jeddah in Saudi Arabia, and earned a bachelor's degree in management.
Began a relationship Osama Afghan jihad with his debut (the late seventies and early eighties of the last century), where he visited the area of Peshawar in Pakistan, and met a group of leaders of the Afghan parties of the old guard, such as Abdrb Rasoul Sayyaf, and President Burhanuddin Rabbani. And then returned to Saudi Arabia and began a campaign to collect donations.
In 1982, he decided to enter Afghanistan and participate in the jihad against the Soviet troops, where he received financial support from the CIA with the knowledge of the U.S. government, estimated at $ 3 billion, has been funded with arms and other sources to defeat the Soviets who left Afghanistan defeated.
And was then bin Laden's position in the battle against the Russians when he said "in this jihad, were the most important things is to destroy the myth of the great powers, not only in my mind but also in the thinking of every Muslim."
In 1984, he founded the movement bin Laden supporters in Peshawar, Pakistan, as a center for incoming Arabs for Jihad, and two years later 1986, he founded six camps for the Mujahideen. Having stayed there until 1989, when he returned to Saudi Arabia.
Osama stayed in Arabia until after the liberation of Kuwait from the Iraqi invasion (February 1991), where he returned to Afghanistan again and went to the Sudan in 1991, where he contributed to some economic projects, taking advantage of the economist described the rich and extensive relationships.
In 1994, Saudi authorities withdrew citizenship from him, and later in 1996, issued a statement in which he called for jihad against the "Americans" and demanded "directed by the infidels from the Arabian Peninsula," in reference to the presence of U.S. troops there.
In 1998, issued in alliance with the Egyptian Islamic Jihad group led by Muhammad Ayman al-Zawahiri statement "World Islamic Front", which called for the killing of "Americans and Jews in every time and place."
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