Osama bin Laden

Us?mah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin L?din (born March 10, 1957) ({{lang-ar|????? ?? ???? ?? ??? ?? ????}}), commonly known as Osama bin Laden, or Usama bin Laden, ({{lang-ar|أسامة بن لادن}}), is the founder of al-Qaeda, a Sunni Islamist terrorist network that has been involved in attacks against civilians and military targets around the world. He and his organization are widely believed to be responsible for the attacks on September 11, 2001 on New York City and Washington, D.C. which killed at least 2,752 people.

External links

• Reward for Osama's Capture
• US State Department on conspiracy theories
• Identifying Misinformation US government denial of CIA connection

Profiles

• Rewards for Justice
• BBC News: 'I met Osama bin Laden' - March 26 2004 - a short profile of bin Laden's life
• Interpol Profile
• Who Is Osama bin Laden? - By Michel Chossudovsky
• FBI's Most Wanted Terrorist poster

Interviews

• Transcript of interview by CNN (PDF file) - Correspondent Peter Arnett (March 20 1997). The interview was first broadcast on CNN on May 10 1997. This was Osama bin Ladin's first sit-down with a Western TV journalist. CNN story about the interview
• Interview with Osama bin Laden - Questions from his followers and from ABC reporter John Miller, (May 1998)
• Interview printed in the January 11 1999 issue of Time Magazine
• Alleged interview - Transcription from Pakistani newspaper of questions answered via written correspondence with the Taliban, who supposedly passed them to bin Laden
• Extract from 'The Great War for Civilisation: the Conquest of the Middle East' the new book (October 2005) by Robert Fisk; meetings and interviews with Osama bin Laden.

Other

• Fatwa from World Islamic Front for Jihad against Jews and Crusaders - Statement from bin Laden, 23 February 1998
• BBC:Transcript of Osama bin Laden video aired by al-Jazeera
• Bin Laden comes home to roost - By Michael Moran, MSNBC, August 24, 1998. Alleges a CIA/bin Laden relationship
• Picture of bin Ladin and two brothers on a visit to Oxford in 1971 - Story on BBC News
• Osama bin Laden at the Internet Movie Database
• Coll, Steve (2004), Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Penguin Press; ISBN 1594200076
• Emerson, S. (2002), American Jihad: The Terrorists Living Among Us, Free Press; ISBN 0743233247