Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was the Saudi-born founder of al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist organization responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
He became the world's most wanted terrorist, evading capture for nearly a decade before U.S. forces killed him in Pakistan in 2011.
His name remains shorthand for jihadist terrorism: the next bin Laden, a bin Laden-style attack.
- 9/112001 terrorist attacks
- Al-QaedaIslamist militant organization
- terrorismIntimidation through targeted violence
- AbbottabadPakistani hill station
- jihadIslamic struggle, inner or outer
holy war · Taliban · Afghanistan · World Trade Center · fatwa · militant · 9/11 attacks · extremist · insurgent · Muslim · Saudi Arabia · compound · September 11 attacks · CIA operations · Twin Towers · New York City · hideout · beard
- Famous DeathsAbraham Lincoln, Julius Caesar, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Archduke Franz Ferdinand
- War on TerrorIED, Guantanamo, regime change, troop surge, Rumsfeld
- 9/11World Trade Center, Twin Towers, Ground Zero, September 11, Pentagon
- Terrorismterrorism, terror cell, suicide bomber, suicide bombing, suicide attack
- Middle Eastern FiguresSaladin, Nasser, Yasser Arafat, Arafat, Anwar Sadat
- Revolutionary LeadersFidel Castro, Simon Bolivar, Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong, Che Guevara
Osama bin LadenMother Teresa
Canonized Albanian missionary
Mahatma Gandhi · Dalai Lama · Nelson Mandela · Martin Luther King Jr. · Malala Yousafzai
Osama bin LadenGeorge W. Bush
Navy SEALs · first responders · Rudy Giuliani · American patriot · protector
Osama bin LadenGeorge Washington
Abraham Lincoln · American patriot · first responder · ally · protector