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Brief History Of Osama Bin Laden

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History of Osama Bin Laden Osama Bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was the 17th of 52 children his father Mohammed Bin Laden had. With him being young, in school and married like most Saudi men, he joined the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood. Islam was more than a religion to Bin Laden. It shaped his beliefs and influenced by Abdullah Azzam that all Muslims should move up in holy war to create a single Islamic state. During this time, the Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979, Bin Laden and Azzam came together to form a group with intentions to engage in the resistance. “In 1988, Bin Laden created a new group called al-Qaida that would focus on acts of terrorism instead of military campaigns.” However, the western Saudi Royal

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