Osama bin Laden was born in 1957 in Saudi Arabia. His father, Mohammed bin Laden was from Yemen and his mother was from Syria. His father had several wives and fathered approximately fifty children with Osama being number seventeen. Mohammed owed a construction company in Saudi Arabia. The company held such prestige in Saudi that they rebuilt mosques in Mecca and Medina. These two places along with Jerusalem hold a key to Osama bin Laden’s rage against the United States. Osama went to King Abdul Aziz University in Jedda, Saudi Arabia where he studied economics and management. The university taught Osama the wide world of Islamic policies.

Osama bin Laden left Saudi Arabia in 1979 to fight against the Soviets whom invaded Afghanistan. Ironically the fight to keep the Soviets from taking control of Afghanistan was funded by the United States and had support from the governments of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. Osama was able to receive security training from the CIA while he was fighting for the mujahideen in Afghanistan. While Osama was there he established the MAK (Maktab al-Khindimat) in order to recruit Islamic soldiers for the fight in Afghanistan. He was able to recruit Turks, Lebanese

and Egyptians; he also held recruiting offices in Detroit and Boston in the 1980’s. Then in 1988 Osama formed the al-Qaeda (“the base”) terrorist group.

Arabia believing that once these regimes are gone the three holiest places, Mecca, Medina, and Jerusalem would be free.

Osama was also accused of the 1998 attack on the U.S Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Africa where two hundred and twenty-four people were killed including twelve Americans. Osama was indicted in New York on charges of being involved in that attack. This attack prompted a response from President Bill Clinton in which he had cruise missiles launched against targets in Sudan and Afghanistan; this had little to no affect on Osama. He continued to call for the attack against the United States, Israel, and Saudi

In 1998 Osama called for Americans and Jews, even children to be killed. His decree that he issued charged Americans of declaring war against Muslims. In which he stated “ for seven years the United States is occupying the lands of Islam in the holiest of its territories, Arabia, plundering its riches, overwhelming its rulers, humiliating its people, threatening its neighbors, and using its bases in the peninsula as a spearhead to fight against neighboring Islamic people.” Osama bin Laden’s goal is to expel the enemy (the U.S.) from the Holy Land of Islam, to help Iraq defeat their enemies, and to help Palestine gain control of the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem from Israel.

1989 came around and the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan and this is when the Taliban came to life in Afghanistan. With the war over Osama went back to Saudi Arabia to work for his fathers construction company. Once he w

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