How Osama bin Laden became the world’s most dangerous terrorist from the son of a billionaire, know the full story

Osama bin Laden, the very name brings to mind the 9/11 attacks. He was the founder of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda and the most wanted terrorist in the world. Bin Laden was born in 1957 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His father, Mohammed bin Laden, was a prominent construction businessman whose business involved building mosques in Mecca and Medina. After his father’s death, Osama inherited a fortune worth about $300 million at the age of 13. During his studies, he was influenced by extremist ideology and gradually followed the path of terrorism.

In the 1970s, Osama contacted Islamic fundamentalist Sheikh Abdullah Azam. Influenced by his ideas, he followed the path of “Jihad”. In the 1980s, when the war against the Soviet army began in Afghanistan, bin Laden created an organization called “The Base”, which later became al-Qaeda. After the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan in 1989, bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia and began expanding al-Qaeda into a global network. He soon became the head of his organization, which spanned more than 35 countries.

In the 1990s, he declared America as his main enemy. Al-Qaeda was involved in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings and the 1995 US embassy bombings in Nairobi and Tanzania. In 1998, the US declared him most wanted and put a $5 million bounty on his head. On September 11, 2001, al-Qaeda carried out the largest terrorist attack in American history – the 9/11 attacks, in which more than 3,000 people were killed. Subsequently, the US launched a massive operation to capture bin Laden. Finally, on May 2, 2011, US Navy SEALs killed Osama bin Laden during a covert operation in Abbottabad, Pakistan. With this, the world’s most dangerous terrorist is gone.