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Osama bin Laden Was Killed a Decade Ago. Here’s Why It Still Matters.
Ten years after 9/11, U.S. forces finally caught up with Osama bin Laden, mastermind of the deadliest attacks on American soil, killing him in a raid on the Pakistani compound that housed him and his family.
The moment punctuated America’s journey through the trauma of 9/11, but it was anything but a conclusion. Conflict spurred by the attacks continued through a second decade – springing back into headlines even today, as the Biden administration moves to end major involvement in Afghanistan and Iraq.
For CNN national security analyst Peter Bergen, bin Laden’s death left important questions unanswered.
How did a privileged, soft-spoken young man transform into a global leader of terror intent on waging war on America and killing thousands of people? How and why did the world miss or ignore so many warning signs about bin Laden’s growing influence and threat? How is bin Laden’s legacy inspiring his ideological heirs today in ways that will extend violence?
Bergen, who produced the first television interview of bin Laden in 1997, this month published “The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden” (Simon & Schuster), a biography of the terror leader that combines information gleaned from more than 20 ye
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Osama bin Laden
Militant leader (1957–2011)
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Osama bin Laden[a] (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian–born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union, and supported the Bosnian mujahideen during the Yugoslav Wars. Opposed to the United States' foreign policy in the Middle East, Bin Laden declared war on the U.S. in 1996 and advocated attacks targeting US assets in various countries, and supervised the execution of the September 11 attacks inside the U.S. in 2001.
Bin Laden was born in Riyadh to the aristocratic bin Laden family. He studied at Saudi and foreign universities until 1979, when he joined the mujahideen fighting against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. In 1984, he co-founded Maktab al-Khidamat, which recruited foreign mujahideen into the war. Bin Laden was an influential ideologue who inspired several Islamist organizations. To many Islamists, he was a war hero for helping defend Afghanistan, and a voice of opposition against Western imperialism. He founded al-Qaeda in