An American Threat
Osama Bin Laden was born somewhere around 1955 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is the youngest son of Muhammad Bin laden a wealthy Saudi. He made the family fortune in the construction business that was involved with Saudi Government contracts. Osama Bin laden left Saudi Arabia to fight against the Soviets in the Afghanistan conflict in 1979. In the mid 1980s he helped co-found the Maktab al-Khidamat. He formed this to help funnel fitters and money to the Afghan resistance. When the history of the Afghan resistance movement is written, Bin Laden's own contribution to the mujahedin , and the indirect result of his training and assistance, may turn out to be a turning- point in the recent history of militant fundamentalism. Even if, today, he tries to minimize hisrole. ''When the invasion of Afghanistan started, I was enraged and went there at once. I arrived within days, before the end of 1979,'' he said. ''Yes, I fought there, but my fellow Muslims did much more than I. Many of them died and In Peshawar with a Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood member named Abdallah Azzam. This organization also known as the MAK, established recruitment centers on the world. Including the U.S., Egypt, Saudi Arabia, an
"Meanwhile, ABCNEWS has learned the FBI has been secretly taking with someone who knows a lot about Bin Laden's operations-Wali Khan. Khan, who was convicted with Ramzi Yousef of plotting to blow up U.S. airliners over the Pacific, has told the FBI he was a key organizer for Bin Laden's terrorist operations, including a plot to kill President Clinton and the Pope on their visit to Manila." This talk labeled Bin laden as one of the FBI's most wanted and put a five million-dollar bounty out on his capture. The Saudi government froze his bank accounts and took away his passport. He then fled to Afghanistan were he is the leader of a group of Islamic fighters known as "Afghan Veterans." Currently a large number of militants in Afghanistan are allegiance to him. He still maintains extensive ties with a number of international terror organizations in Egypt, India, the Philippines and other places. These groups enjoy the use of Bin Ladens funds, training camps, and his companies all over the world. These companies are said to play the same rote as the diplomatic immunity proceeded by state sponsors of terrorism. Making the entire world his battleground. This deadly combination of wealth and extremism gave the Afghan veteran's Association a place among the most dangerous organizations taking part in the game of international terrorism. Bin Laden left from Afghanistan in the late 1980's to extend his compaign all over the world. Azzam wanted only to focus on the support of Muslims waging military campaigns, so he formed a new organization in 1988 called Al-Quida. In 1989 a care bomb killed Azzam. Most of the extremist part of Azzam's group joined Bin Laden's new organization. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/world/dailynews/terrormain980610.html "U.S. Wants Pakistan's Help in Nabbing Osama Bin Laden." On-Line. Internet. April 4, 2000. Available WWW: http//www.islam - online net/ IOL - English/ duwalia / news - 18-1-2000/topnews 7.asp "It is what Bin Laden can do for the Ramzi Yousefs of tomorrow that wo
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