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Al-Qaeda and September 11. Usama Bin Laden, b. 1957. Son of Muhammad Bin Laden Family originally from Hadhramawt, now Yemen. Bin Ladin Group. Father: billionaire construction magnate in Saudi Arabia Mother from Syria. Bin Laden Family. Came to Saudi Arabia in 1930 Close to House of Saud
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Usama Bin Laden, b. 1957 • Son of Muhammad Bin Laden • Family originally from Hadhramawt, now Yemen
Bin Ladin Group • Father: billionaire construction magnate in Saudi Arabia • Mother from Syria
Bin Laden Family • Came to Saudi Arabia in 1930 • Close to House of Saud • Constructed roads, buildings • Worth $11 bn at death
Dome of Rock • 1969 Bin Laden Corp. repairs Dome of Rock • Damaged by Australian Zionist
Education • Bin Laden raised with Saudi princes • engineering – Abd al-Aziz University, Jedda
Bin Laden & Palestine • Studied with brother of Abdullah Azzam (later jihad leader, Afghanistan) • (Palestinian Islamists)
Support for Mujahidin • Soviets in Afghanistan • From 1980: • Bin Laden chief Saudi fundraiser for Mujahidin
Peshawar • 1982 moves to Peshawar • With Azzam runs bureau of services (Maktab al-Khidmat)
Camps • 1986 Bin Laden establishes training camps in Afghanistan • Fights against Soviets
Al-Qaeda • 1988 makes database of trainees in his camps • Data “base” = al-Qaeda
1989 • Bin Laden breaks with Azzam, who is assassinated • Is called back to Saudi Arabia, passport withdrawn • Gives sermon on first Intifada in Jedda
Gulf War • Bin Laden offers Mujahidin to Saudis for use against Saddam after invasion of Kuwait • Is dismayed by presence of US troops
Gulf War and Sudan • Is expelled from SA, goes to Sudan late 1991 • Bin Laden uses construction works in Sudan as cover
Black Hawk Down • Funds fundamentalists in Algeria, Somalia • Blackhawk Down (Mogadishu June 1993) (Md. Atef)
First World Trade Center Bombing • First World Trade Bombing 1993 • Islamic Group of blind Sheikh • Bin Laden pays legal bills of one defendant
Ramzi Yusuf • Ramzi Yusuf (later Manila plot) • Cousin of Khalid Shaikh Muhammad • 1995 assassination attempt against Hosni Mubarak
Afghanistan Again - 1996 • Bin Laden forced to Afghanistan 1996 • Aug. 23 Declaration of Jihad against Americans occupying the Land of two holy places
Al-Qaeda • Feb. 1998 Bin Laden creates International Islamic Front against Jews and Crusaders • With Ayman al-Zawahiri of al-Jihad al-Islami • Calls for killing Americans
Al-Qaeda Terrorism • Aug 7 1998 Embassy bombings East Africa • October 12, 2000 – USS Cole
US Reaction • 1998: US launching of Tomahawks on Khost, Khartoum • Ships stop refueling at Aden, Yemen • Plans 1999 covert operation against Bin Laden
Millennium Plot • Al-Qaeda plan to bomb tourist hotel in Jordan • And Los Angeles Airport in 2000 • Ahmd Ressam arrested at Canada border -
Hamburg Cell • 1992 Muhammad Atta comes to Hamburg to study engineering • 1996 joins al-Quds mosque • Grows beard, writes will
Atta and Bin Laden • Summer 1998 trains in Afghanistan • Oct. 1998 Atta returns, forms terror cell in Hamburg • Joined by Ziad Jarrah & Marwan al-Shehhi
Terror Cell • May-June 2000 all three come to US for flight training • Receive $100,000 each from Mustafa Hasawi in UAE
Plan Assembled • Nov-Dec. 2000 Jarrah visits Bin Laden in Afghanistan • Spring 2001 Atta flies to Europe to coordinate al-Qaeda network
Cells in Place • Saudi muscle begins arriving in US • Khalid al-Mihdar & Nawaf al-Hazmi in San Diego (from Malaysia)
Further al-Qaeda attacks • Attempted • Richard Reid, shoe bomber • Carried out • Karachi • Bali • Mombasa • Casablanca • Madrid