Osama Bin Laden: A Terrorist's Life
![A young Osama bin Laden at age 15 with 22 of his siblings in Sweden in 1971.](https://gdb.rferl.org/2c1b6f0f-ef71-4135-a21e-1c1d67bbf87a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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A young Osama bin Laden at age 15 with 22 of his siblings in Sweden in 1971.
![Osama bin Laden in a cave in the Jalalabad region of Afghanistan in 1988.](https://gdb.rferl.org/08057bcf-a7be-4e2c-9883-2c4f9a4857fa_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Osama bin Laden in a cave in the Jalalabad region of Afghanistan in 1988.
![Osama bin Laden walks with Afghanis in the Jalalabad region in 1989.](https://gdb.rferl.org/45428685-fa8e-4505-be2d-9467b6418a5b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Osama bin Laden walks with Afghanis in the Jalalabad region in 1989.
![This handout recently received from former CNN reporter Peter Arnett shows him posing with Osama bin Laden in March 1997 after a television interview in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan.](https://gdb.rferl.org/902c8b57-78ef-4fcf-ab06-58ca5c78fb44_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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This handout recently received from former CNN reporter Peter Arnett shows him posing with Osama bin Laden in March 1997 after a television interview in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan.
![Osama bin Laden in traditional Saudi dress in this 1988 photo taken in Jeddah.](https://gdb.rferl.org/c43acd84-25b9-4beb-a81d-934940f9f9d5_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Osama bin Laden in traditional Saudi dress in this 1988 photo taken in Jeddah.
![Rescue workers remove the bodies of people who died when a bomb exploded near the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi in August 1998, an attack credited to Al-Qaeda. More than 200 were killed.](https://gdb.rferl.org/371b995a-2c4a-49a1-bff9-afafe78e5bc3_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Rescue workers remove the bodies of people who died when a bomb exploded near the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi in August 1998, an attack credited to Al-Qaeda. More than 200 were killed.
![U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (center) walks past the damaged U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on August 1998, after a bomb attack credited to Al-Qaeda. At least 11 people were killed.](https://gdb.rferl.org/f4812b82-91b2-43aa-9b50-dc94af556276_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (center) walks past the damaged U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on August 1998, after a bomb attack credited to Al-Qaeda. At least 11 people were killed.
![The "USS Cole" is pictured after a bomb attack during a refueling operation in the Yemeni port of Aden in this October 12, 2000, photo. Seventeen U.S. service members were killed in the attack.](https://gdb.rferl.org/53fa3157-487f-4891-a4f9-53fa3419968a_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The "USS Cole" is pictured after a bomb attack during a refueling operation in the Yemeni port of Aden in this October 12, 2000, photo. Seventeen U.S. service members were killed in the attack.
![Osama bin Laden (right) sits with his son Mohammed (center) and one of his top aides, Mohammed Atef, during Mohammed's wedding to Atef's daughter in Kandahar in January 2001.](https://gdb.rferl.org/8df35103-fa3f-4949-bfeb-9246a0a52b21_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Osama bin Laden (right) sits with his son Mohammed (center) and one of his top aides, Mohammed Atef, during Mohammed's wedding to Atef's daughter in Kandahar in January 2001.
![The World Trade Center towers burn behind the Brooklyn Bridge on September 11, 2001.](https://gdb.rferl.org/f717bce5-fdf1-4be9-a4b4-59b30fd7ffe7_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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The World Trade Center towers burn behind the Brooklyn Bridge on September 11, 2001.
![In this photo, dated November 2001, Osama bin Laden sits with his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, at his hideout at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.](https://gdb.rferl.org/9138bf4d-9774-48be-b6e9-6b054519ef9e_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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In this photo, dated November 2001, Osama bin Laden sits with his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, at his hideout at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.
![Afghan fighters outside one of the entrances to caves where Osama bin Laden was reportedly hiding in the mountains of Tora Bora in December 2001.](https://gdb.rferl.org/19ca1a8e-a8fc-43a9-b659-08d4a77d6e1b_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan fighters outside one of the entrances to caves where Osama bin Laden was reportedly hiding in the mountains of Tora Bora in December 2001.
![Afghan fighters shelling Al-Qaeda positions in Tora Bora where Osama bin Laden was reportedly hiding in December 2001.](https://gdb.rferl.org/a4ee62d8-40f4-4b7e-915f-df4dae923240_w1024_q10_s.jpg)
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Afghan fighters shelling Al-Qaeda positions in Tora Bora where Osama bin Laden was reportedly hiding in December 2001.