Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957 in the capital of Saudi Arabia - the city of Riyadh. His father was the influential billionaire Mohammed bin Awada bin Laden, and his mother was the concubine Hamida al-Atass. Soon after the birth of the future terrorist number 1, his parents divorced, and the boy stayed with his mother. Subsequently, she remarried and gave birth to a new husband of four children.

Bin Laden Jr. was brought up as a Sunni. He studied at the best secular school and at the prestigious King Abdulaziz University, at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration. Some sources report that the young man was extremely diligent in his studies and successfully graduated from the university, having received an appropriate diploma. Others, on the contrary, argue that Osama bin Laden dropped out in his third year.

The general fortune of the bin Laden family was about $5 billion. After Bin Laden Sr. died in a plane crash in 1967, his son Osama (one of the billionaire's 52 children) inherited between $25 million and $30 million. While studying at the university, he began to show an increased interest in religion, diligently pursuing the interpretation of jihad and the Qur'an.

Intending to increase the inheritance received, in his youth, Osama went into the construction business. He was distracted from quiet work for the benefit of his company by the military invasion of Afghanistan and the Afghan Jihad movement. The extremist was enraged by the outbreak of war and arrived in Afghanistan at the end of 1979, and already at the beginning of the year 1980 he established the first contacts with Islamic opposition groups in the city of Lahore (Pakistan).

After that, Osama bin Laden systematically supported the leaders of the Afghan resistance movement from his own funds. Together with Abdullah Azzam, who led the Palestinian movement "Muslim Brotherhood", Osama opened the "Bureau of Services" and organized the recruitment of Muslim volunteers from the countries of the Arab world. The extremist businessman paid for all volunteers to travel to Afghanistan and prepare them for participation in hostilities. Moreover, he himself participated in the battles against the troops of the USSR.

When the Soviet troops were withdrawn from the country, the terrorist lost interest in the Union and Russia, switching to the United States. He was endlessly angered by the presence of the American armed forces in the countries of the Muslim world, and he began to perceive precisely the States as his key enemy. In 1989, the extremist again took up the contracting and construction business, while at the same time heavily helping the opposition from Yemen and Saudi Arabia.

By the end of the 1980s, Osama bin Laden broke up with Abdullah Azzam, as the latter wanted the Arabs in the resistance movement to unite with the Mujahideen, while Osama himself wanted to see his compatriots as a separate military force. This is how al-Qaeda began to form. At first, this association was rather formal: the members of the group had only to have good manners, be ready to listen and take an oath to follow their older comrades.

The turning point came when, in the late summer of 1990, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of illegal extraction of Iraqi oil and brought his troops into the small neighboring country. This war itself lasted only two days, but it was it that gave rise to a much larger and longer war in the Persian Gulf, in which both the United States and the USSR took part.

The largest concentration of Iraqi troops was concentrated near the border with Saudi Arabia, and Saddam Hussein himself actively called on neighboring peoples for Arab unity. Osama bin Laden met with high-ranking government officials, hoping to dissuade them from accepting help from countries in the non-Muslim world and offering strong support for his own Arab Legion. However, the extremist was refused.

The head of Al-Qaeda has repeatedly publicly condemned the invasion of American military forces on Muslim lands, arguing that only those for whom Islam is their native religion can defend Medina and Mecca. It is assumed that at the same time, Osama's group gradually began to turn into an armed terrorist group, and bin Laden's dissatisfaction with US interference in the affairs of Muslims took on a completely finished form in the form of plans for future terrorist attacks.

Although the Gulf War ended in February 1991, things were just beginning for Osama. He finally decided that the fight against the enemies of the Muslim world (with those whom he considered as such) was the main goal of his life, and with enviable diligence and purposefulness he began to engage in this struggle.

So, in August 1998, his terrorist organization blew up the US embassies in Tanzanian Dar es Salaam and Kenyan Nairobi. The attack was organized on August 7 (exactly seven years after US troops were stationed in Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War). As a result of explosions in Nairobi alone, 213 people were killed, and about 5,000 citizens were injured of varying degrees of severity.

Since then, for the American intelligence services, bin Laden has received the well-known status of "terrorist No. 1". Many of the bank accounts of the Islamist businessman were seized, and five million dollars was promised for information that would help apprehend the international criminal.

Nevertheless, the terrorist continued to actively support extremists living in Central Asia, the North Caucasus and other regions.

According to some sources, bin Laden even managed to establish a real "Terrorist Fund". The head of Al-Qaeda also participated in the Bosnian war, helping the president of the state to create a real "fundamentalist Islamic republic" in the Balkans. To finance the transfer of Mujahideen mercenaries to Bosnia from the states of the Arab world, Osama resorted to the help of his Sudanese business partners.

In the mid-90s, the extremist visited Albania, visiting the president. Authentic photos or videos have not survived since then, but it is known that Osama represented during this visit one of the radical fundamentalist groups that sent their members to participate in the armed conflict in Kosovo. When the war in Chechnya began, the head of the cruel and unprincipled Al-Qaeda began to actively transport his Mujahideen to this region as well.

As you know, on September 11, 2001, a terrorist organization stole four passenger planes, which subsequently crashed into two towers of the World Trade Center, into the Pentagon building and in a field near the city of Shanksville (it was assumed that the fourth plane would crash into the Capitol). Nearly 3,000 people have died as a result of horrendous acts of terrorism.

Osama bin Laden initially denied the involvement of his al-Qaeda terrorist group in the attacks. Later, he admitted that he knew about the impending attacks and discussed them with other leaders of the extremist underground, and after a while he completely took responsibility for what happened. In October 2004, Osama said that the September 2011 attacks were, in his opinion, just punishment for the "tyranny" of the American-Israeli alliance in Lebanon and Palestine.

Clinton, Bush, and Obama tried to destroy the world-famous terrorist. The bounty on bin Laden's head increased to $25 million and then to $50 million. During the years of persecution of the extremist, many media and politicians reported that Osama was killed, died of typhus, and the like. However, later it turned out that the terrorist is still alive. Numerous operations to apprehend a terrorist were carried out in the United States, one of them is dedicated to the film "Target Number One".

Bin Laden met his real death on May 2, 2011, when the US military carried out a covert operation at the terrorist's villa. It was located near Islamabad, in the city of Abbottabad. Subsequently, many sources, including directly US President Barack Obama, confirmed the information about the assassination of a terrorist and told where Osama was killed, how terrorist No. 1 was killed, how old he was at the time of death, etc. Bin Laden's body, according to CNN, was buried in the Arabian Sea.