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v. t. e. On May 2, [a] 2011, Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was shot and killed at his compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad by United States Navy SEALs of SEAL Team Six (also known as DEVGRU). [1] The operation, code-named Operation Neptune Spear, was carried out in a CIA -led ...
Osama bin Laden[a] (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he participated in the Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union and supported the activities of the Bosnian mujahideen during the Yugoslav Wars.
Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America. Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America ( ISBN 0-7615-1968-8) is a New York Times Bestseller by Yossef Bodansky, the former Director of the Congressional Task Force on Terrorism and Unconventional Warfare. The book provides a full account of the rise of Osama bin Laden and discusses Islamism.
Photo by Ernest Brooks. The total number of military and civilian casualties in World War I was about 40 million: estimates range from around 15 to 22 million deaths [ 1 ] and about 23 million wounded military personnel, ranking it among the deadliest conflicts in human history. The total number of deaths includes from 9 to 11 million military ...
The continued presence of US troops after the Gulf War in Saudi Arabia was one of the stated motivations behind the September 11th attacks [40] and the Khobar Towers bombing. Further, the date chosen for the 1998 United States embassy bombings (August 7) was eight years to the day that American troops were sent to Saudi Arabia. [46]
On May 2, 2011, United States President Barack Obama confirmed that al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed in his compound in Abbottabad, northeastern Pakistan. Bin Laden's death was welcomed by many as a positive and significant turning point in the fight against al-Qaeda and related groups.
The United States declared war on the German Empire on April 6, 1917, nearly three years after World War I started. A ceasefire and armistice were declared on November 11, 1918. Before entering the war, the U.S. had remained neutral, though it had been an important supplier to the United Kingdom, France, and the other powers of the Allies of ...
18 American servicemen are killed by al-Qaeda-trained forces in the Battle of Mogadishu. [17] 9 Apr 1994 Bin Laden's Saudi citizenship is revoked. [10] [17] - Sept Kandahar, Kandahar Province, Islamic State of Afghanistan: Mohammed Omar founds the Taliban in Kandahar. 24-26 Dec