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Osama bin Laden

1957 - 2011

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Osama bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a 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 American foreign policy in the Middle East, Bin Laden declared war on the United States in 1996 and advocated attacks targeting U.S. assets in various countries, and supervised the execution of the September 11 attacks inside the U.S. in 2001. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Osama bin Laden is the 5th most popular extremist, the 15th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (down from 11th in 2019) and the most popular Saudi Arabian Extremist.

Osama bin Laden was the leader of Al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization that carried out the September 11th attacks on the United States.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Osama bin Laden ranks 5 out of 283. Before him are Jack the Ripper, John Wilkes Booth, Gavrilo Princip, and Elizabeth Báthory. After him are Charles Manson, Zodiac Killer, Ted Bundy, Abdullah Öcalan, Herostratus, Amon Göth, and Lee Harvey Oswald.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Osama bin Laden ranks 1. After him are Bongbong Marcos, Hans Zimmer, Hamid Karzai, Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán, Donald Tusk, Jaggi Vasudev, Luis Antonio Tagle, Daniel Day-Lewis, Dolph Lundgren, Michael Clarke Duncan, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. Among people deceased in 2011, Osama bin Laden ranks 7. Before him are Steve Jobs, Kim Jong-il, Muammar Gaddafi, Wangari Maathai, Václav Havel, and Elizabeth Taylor. After him are Otto von Habsburg, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Cesária Évora, Peter Falk, Burhanuddin Rabbani, and Sócrates.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden ranks 15 out of 354. Before him are Husayn ibn Ali (626), Salman of Saudi Arabia (1935), Khalid ibn al-Walid (592), Hasan ibn Ali (624), Bilal ibn Rabah (580), and Muawiyah I (603). After him are Abdullah ibn Abd al-Muttalib (548), Ibn Saud (1875), Abu Talib ibn Abd al-Muttalib (539), Aminah (557), Ja'far al-Sadiq (702), and Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (1924).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Saudi Arabia

Among extremists born in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden ranks 1. After him are Abu Mohammad al-Julani (1981), Ibn al-Khattab (1969), Hamza bin Laden (1989), Wail al-Shehri (1973), Hamza al-Ghamdi (1980), Satam al-Suqami (1976), and Waleed al-Shehri (1978).

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