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Osama bin Laden

Saudi terrorist and co-founder of al-Qaeda (1957–2011)

7 dated entries naming Osama bin Laden, drawn from 6 separate years between 1957 CE and 2022 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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20th century

  • 1957March 10 – Osama bin Laden, Saudi-born terrorist and founder of al-Qaeda (d. 2011)source
  • 1998August 7 – 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: the bombings of the United States embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Nairobi, Kenya, kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to terrorist Osama bin Laden, an exile of Saudi Arabia.source

21st century

  • 2003September 10 – Al-Qaeda leaders Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-Zawahiri release their first video statement since 2001.source
  • 2004October 29 – Osama bin Laden releases a video taking credit for the September 11 attacks.source
  • 2011May 1 – U.S. President Barack Obama announces that Osama bin Laden, the founder and leader of the militant group Al-Qaeda, was killed on May 2, 2011 (PKT, UTC+05) during an American military operation in Pakistan.source
  • 2011May 2 – Osama bin Laden, 54, Saudi founder of Al-Qaeda, planned September 11 attacks, shot.source
  • 2022July 31 – Ayman al-Zawahiri, the Egyptian terrorist who became the 2nd Emir of al-Qaeda after Osama bin Laden's death in 2011, is killed in an airstrike in Kabul, Afghanistan conducted by the United States' Central Intelligence Agency.source

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