- Osama bin Laden (أسامة بن لادن) was the founder of the al-Qaeda organization, responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States.
- Osama was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on March 10, 1957.
- Place of death Abbottabad, Pakistan in Operation «Geronimo».
- Full name: Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (ʾUsāmah bin Muḥammad bin ʿAwaḍ bin Lādin)
- Osama bin Laden was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family.
- Osama was the son of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a wealthy businessman, and Mohammed bin Laden's tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas.
- Osama's father, Mohammed bin Laden was killed in 1967 in an airplane crash in Saudi Arabia when his American pilot misjudged a landing.
- Osama bin Laden was raised as a devout Wahhabi Muslim.
- Osama's height is between 6' 4" and 6'6" (193– 198 cm).
- Osama Bin Laden was living for the past few years in a relatively luxurious compound in Abbottabad, a town 32 miles (51 km) north of the Pakistani capital Islamabad.
- The large mansion was worth an estimated $1 million. It had neither a telephone nor an Internet connection.
- About 20 people lived in the compound.
- On April 29, 2011, U.S. President Barack Obama authorized a raid (Operation Geronimo) on bin Laden's suspected location near Abbottabad, Pakistan.
- Within 24 hours of his death, bin Laden's body was taken out to sea for burial.
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