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Major rewrite plus a lot more information
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Osama Bin Laden is a Saudi Arabian and the leader of [[al Qaeda]], a worldwide [[terrorist]] group responsible for [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] and some other terrorist attacks on Americans in the 1990s.
Osama Bin Laden is a Saudi Arabian millionaire and the leader of [[al Qaeda]], a worldwide [[terrorist]] group responsible for [[September 11, 2001 attacks]] and some other terrorist attacks on Americans in the 1990s. He obtained his wealth by inheriting it from his father, Mohammed Awad bin Laden, who was a successful entrepreneur in the construction industry.
Osama Bin Laden was expelled from [[Saudi Arabia]] in 1992 after he criticized the Saudi government for permitting the United States to station troops there to liberate [[Kuwait]] from [[Saddam Hussein]]'s invasion.
During the 1980s insurgency against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan the CIA helped to train and arm bin Laden's mujahideen [http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=22422].
Bin Laden lived in Sudan for most of the 1990's at the invitation of [[Hassan al-Turabi]], a powerful Sudanese political leader and terrorism supporter. He then returned to [[Afghanistan]], where he had fought against the Soviets in the 1980's. He was protected by the [[Taliban]] until the American liberation of [[Afghanistan]] following [[9/11]].
During the 1980s insurgency against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan the CIA helped to train and arm anti-Soviet Islamic militants. Bin Laden had his own source of funding, though, and would have shunned influence by America.<!--Citation: 9/11 Commission Report. I don't remember the exact page, though. If anybody finds it, we can put it here.-->
He remains at large to this day.
He remains at large to this day.