October - Eighteen US servicemen, part of a humanitarian mission to Somalia, die in an ambush perpetrated by militants who reportedly trained with al Qaeda. His family disowns him. He moves with his children and wives to Afghanistan, where he receives harbor from the Taliban. The United States indicts bin Laden on charges of training the people involved in the attack that killed 18 US servicemen in Somalia.
It wants to occupy our countries, steal our resources, impose on us agents to rule us. February - According to court documents, bin Laden orders the militarization of the East African cell of al Qaeda, a move that culminates in the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, , eight years to the day after US troops landed in the Saudi kingdom.
May 29, - Bin Laden issues a statement entitled "The Nuclear Bomb of Islam," under the banner of the "International Islamic Front for Fighting the Jews and Crusaders," in which he states that "it is the duty of Muslims to prepare as much force as possible to terrorize the enemies of God. November - Is indicted by the United States on counts of murder for the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. He claims he was trained in urban warfare and explosives at an Afghanistan camp run by bin Laden.
May 29, - Four of bin Laden's alleged supporters are convicted of the bombings of the US embassies in Africa. December 25, - The Pakistan Observer publishes details of bin Laden's alleged funeral. On the front page, the newspaper reports that an unnamed Taliban leader said bin Laden "had a peaceful natural death in mid-December in the vicinity" of the Tora Bora mountains.
The report says that his death was the result of a "serious lung complication He was laid to rest honorably in his last abode" in a grave prepared according to the beliefs of the fundamentalist Wahhabi sect of Islam to which the Qaeda leader belonged, the report said. December 27, - Afghan officials report that bin Laden is in Pakistan with al Qaeda sympathizers. January 18, - Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf says that Osama bin Laden might have died of kidney failure in Afghanistan after becoming separated from a dialysis machine he had used in recent years.
March 9, - A Saudi-owned publication quotes one of bin Laden's wives as saying her personal belief is that he is living. The woman, identified only as A. Osama's death cannot be hidden. Bush who promised his people to kill Osama, not knowing that lives are in the hands of God. June 12, - A Russian newspaper publishes what it claims is an interview with Mullah Mohammed Omar. Omar states bin Laden is alive in Afghanistan.
The fire from this war will reach America, and it will burn the capital that launched an unjust attack on Muslims.
Now bin Laden believed that she could help him solve a problem: The Arab Spring revolutions were largely instigated by liberals. In the weeks before he was killed, bin Laden held almost daily family meetings in the Abbottabad compound to discuss how he should respond to the Arab Spring.
These consultations included Umm Hamza and his second oldest wife, Siham. A poet and an intellectual with a Ph. She and Umm Hamza were his indispensable intellectual sounding board. An apology to Muslims. As part of his public outreach, bin Laden was seriously considering releasing some kind of apology on behalf of al Qaeda and its allies. Not an apology, of course, to the hated Americans. Now bin Laden thought to reposition al Qaeda in the Islamic world as an organization that did not wantonly kill Muslim civilians.
He was seeking a kinder, gentler al Qaeda. Friends and foes: Pakistan, the Taliban, Iran. For this reason among others, many observers surmised that bin Laden must have received some support from Pakistani officials or military officers. But these negotiations fizzled without yielding a truce.
Relations with the Taliban in Afghanistan, on the other hand, remained close. Apologists for the Taliban claim that the group long ago spurned al Qaeda—a premise crucial to the protracted peace talks with the U. But the Abbottabad documents make clear that al Qaeda and the Taliban had no intention of severing their alliance. In fact, al Qaeda maintained friendly relations with the Taliban and cooperated with them on military operations and funding. The documents contain no evidence to suggest that al Qaeda and Iran ever cooperated on any attacks.
What information from the Abbottabad documents is most illuminating? Special Forces, in Abottabad, Pakistan. But when the al-Kuwaiti brothers headed to the local bazaars, they would stock up not just on naan bread and staples, but on Coca-Cola, Pepsi and candy, store owners later said. The compound stockpiled branded medications, including Calpol, a British brand of pain and fever medication for children.
The terrorist leader even kept a stash of Just for Men hair dye to cover the gray in his hair and beard. A snub-nosed Kalashnikov, a memento from his days fighting Russian invaders in Afghanistan, rested on a shelf above the door.
Yellow flowered curtains screened the room from curious eyes, and the walls were filled with hundreds of tapes audio and video carefully organized in rows. Eventually he rebelled against indoor confinement, sending his son Khalid to buy him a hat with a wide brim, like a cowboy hat, that would mask his features if he went outside late in the day. Khalid also oversaw the construction of a gazebo and trellises that would prevent a satellite from obtaining a clear image of his face or physique.
The al-Kuwaiti brothers disguised how many people lived in the compound by ensuring that no fewer than four separate electric meters were installed. Even as the Americans prepared to launch their attack on the compound, relationships were breaking down inside its walls. Exhausted by meeting the needs of a fluctuating but steadily expanding number of confined bin Laden family members and those of their own growing families, the al-Kuwaiti brothers gave the al Qaeda chief an ultimatum.
Before the conflict was fully resolved and a new routine established, SEAL team six arrived by helicopter the night of May 2, , and Osama, the al-Kuwaiti brothers and some of their family members were dead.
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