bin Laden
Americannoun
noun
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The September 11, 2001 attacks were carried out by mostly Saudi hijackers and orchestrated by mastermind Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi who founded Al-Qaeda.
From Barron's ● Sep. 11, 2026
Hardly the smoking gun that puts him in an Afghan cave, scheming with Osama bin Laden.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 3, 2026
In 2011 the U.S. discovered that Osama bin Laden was hiding less than a mile from Pakistan’s leading military academy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 22, 2026
To be sure, one counterargument to the “good enough” narrative is that bin Laden envisioned al-Qaida as “the base” on which other groups could then build their Islamist groups and overthrow secular states.
From Slate ● Apr. 21, 2026
In May of that year, Osama bin Laden, the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks, was killed in his hiding place in Abbottabad, just a stone’s throw away from our military academy.
From "Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World" by Malala Yousafzai
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