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Cause And Effect Essay On Osama Bin Laden

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An extremist group lead by Osama Bin Laden called al-Qaeda, hijacked four airliners and crashed two of the four into the twin towers in new york, another one into the pentagon and one crashed in a field in pennsylvania which was believed to be headed to the capitol building in washington D.C. 3000 people died that whether it was in the tower, on the ground, or in the actual plane.
2500 of the people that died were in fact police officers, because of all the smoke of the towers and fire people still die to this day from the cancer that they got from 9/11. Apparently the reason why the twin towers were destroyed was because the group did not have enough power to destroy the us military. Al-Qaeda made this attack for free publicity and so that america knew what they were made of, it has been said that they did not intend for the building to collapse because they knew that the U.S. government would come after him and not stop until he was dead. …show more content…

American officials believe Osama was the reason for several terrible acts of terrorism that had the outcome of death, on that list is the 1998 bombings of the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania and the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon and the twin towers. He was on the FBI’s “most wanted” list for more than 10 years. Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in 1957 or 1958. Young Osama had a privileged, cosseted upbringing. His siblings were educated in the West and went to work for his father’s company by then an enormous conglomerate that distributed consumer goods like Volkswagen cars and Snapple beverages across the Middle East, but Osama bin Laden stayed close to home. He married young and joined the Islamist Muslim

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