Osama bin Laden

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Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of al-Qaeda, the terrorist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets. He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite. Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings. From 2001 to 2011, bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror, with a US$25 million bounty by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. After being placed on the FBI's Most Wanted list, bin Laden remained in hiding during three U.S. presidential administrations. On May 2, 2011, bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, by U.S. Navy SEALs and CIA operatives in a covert operation ordered by U.S. President Barack Obama. Shortly after his death, bin Laden's body was buried at sea. Al-Qaeda acknowledged his death on May 6, 2011, vowing to retaliate.

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2026
Turning Point: Generation 9/11
Movie Self (archive footage)
2025
Fortuyn: On-Hollands
TV show Self (archive footage)
2025
American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden
TV show Self - Founder of Al-Qaeda (archive footage)
2021
Los 2000
TV show Self (archive footage)
2021
Turning Point: 9/11 and the War on Terror
TV show Self (archive footage)
2021
Spycraft
TV show Self (archive footage)
2019
This Is Not a Movie: Robert Fisk and the Politics of Truth
Movie Self - Al-Qaeda Leader (archive footage)
2017
Road to 9/11
TV show Self (archive footage)
2017
Код доступа
TV show Self
2016
Shadow World
Movie Self - al-Qaeda Leader (archive fotage)
2015
Osama Bin Laden: Up Close and Personal
Movie Self (archive footage)
2012
Top Priority: The Terror Within
Movie Self (archive footage)
2011
The Last Days of Osama Bin Laden
Movie Self (archive footage)
2011
Whistleblowers: The Untold Stories
TV show Self (archive footage)
2011
ZDFzoom
TV show Self (archive footage)
2010
The Oath
Movie Self (archive footage)