This book is an attempt to explain how that transformation happened. For bin Laden, his radicalization was a process that played out over decades. Why was she so important to the story? Just one week out of the University of Virginia, with a degree in economics and foreign policy, Gina Bennett started working at the State Department as a clerk-typist in June Bennett realized that the Afghan Arabs were returning to their home countries such as Algeria, Egypt and Tunisia, and she noticed that some were joining armed groups.
Bennett started researching the bombings of two hotels in Aden, Yemen, in December that were housing U. It was the first time that the U. We are much better positioned to counter another bin Laden now. There were only 16 people on the U.
October - Eighteen US servicemen, part of a humanitarian mission to Somalia, die in an ambush perpetrated by militants who reportedly trained with al Qaeda. His family disowns him. He moves with his children and wives to Afghanistan, where he receives harbor from the Taliban.
The United States indicts bin Laden on charges of training the people involved in the attack that killed 18 US servicemen in Somalia. It wants to occupy our countries, steal our resources, impose on us agents to rule us. February - According to court documents, bin Laden orders the militarization of the East African cell of al Qaeda, a move that culminates in the bombing of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania on August 7, , eight years to the day after US troops landed in the Saudi kingdom.
May 29, - Bin Laden issues a statement entitled "The Nuclear Bomb of Islam," under the banner of the "International Islamic Front for Fighting the Jews and Crusaders," in which he states that "it is the duty of Muslims to prepare as much force as possible to terrorize the enemies of God. November - Is indicted by the United States on counts of murder for the embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. He claims he was trained in urban warfare and explosives at an Afghanistan camp run by bin Laden.
May 29, - Four of bin Laden's alleged supporters are convicted of the bombings of the US embassies in Africa. December 25, - The Pakistan Observer publishes details of bin Laden's alleged funeral.
On the front page, the newspaper reports that an unnamed Taliban leader said bin Laden "had a peaceful natural death in mid-December in the vicinity" of the Tora Bora mountains.
The report says that his death was the result of a "serious lung complication He was laid to rest honorably in his last abode" in a grave prepared according to the beliefs of the fundamentalist Wahhabi sect of Islam to which the Qaeda leader belonged, the report said. December 27, - Afghan officials report that bin Laden is in Pakistan with al Qaeda sympathizers. January 18, - Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf says that Osama bin Laden might have died of kidney failure in Afghanistan after becoming separated from a dialysis machine he had used in recent years.
March 9, - A Saudi-owned publication quotes one of bin Laden's wives as saying her personal belief is that he is living. The woman, identified only as A. Osama's death cannot be hidden. Bush who promised his people to kill Osama, not knowing that lives are in the hands of God. June 12, - A Russian newspaper publishes what it claims is an interview with Mullah Mohammed Omar.
Omar states bin Laden is alive in Afghanistan. The fire from this war will reach America, and it will burn the capital that launched an unjust attack on Muslims. Letters seized from the compound suggested the elder bin Laden wanted his son to join him in Abbottabad and was grooming him as a leader. In a September article, counterterror expert and former FBI agent Ali Soufan said, "Hamza is being prepared for a leadership role in the organization his father founded" and is "likely to be perceived favorably by the jihadi rank-and-file.
The department's Rewards for Justice Program described the younger bin Laden on Twitter as "an emerging al Qaeda leader" who "has threatened attacks against the United States and allies. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.
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