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Bin Laden:
who's who
A guide to individuals and organisations
Latest
FBI press releases
Preliminary
list of 19 hijackers
FBI, 14 September, 2001
New
list of hijack suspects, with photographs
FBI, 27 September, 2001
The
last day
Movements of Mohamed Atta and Abdul Aziz al-Omari, 10-11 September.
Issued by FBI, 4 October, 2001 The
"hijack letter"
Four pages of an Arabic document giving instructions to the hijackers on
physical and religious preparations for the attack. FBI, 28 September,
2001. See also full
English translation and commentary.
Beyond
Jihad
What we can learn from the religious language of the
terrorists. By
Robert Wisnovsky (Slate, 23 Oct 2001)
Chilling document hints at 'Armageddon'
A letter, handwritten in Arabic and possibly the work of one of the
September 11 hijackers, raises many puzzling questions. (Guardian
Unlimited, 1 Oct 2001)
The
evidence against Bin Laden
British government statement. Also speech
to parliament by prime minister Tony Blair linking bin Laden to the
1993 attack in Somalia, the 1998 embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, attempted bombings in Jordan and Los Angeles at the
turn of the millennium, and the bombing of USS Cole
in October 2000.
Security
Council resolution 1373
28 September 2001. Adopted wide-ranging anti-terrorism measures, with
committee to monitor implementation. Alternative site: US
State Dept
Bin
Laden video: 26 December 2001
BBC transcript of the section broadcast by Aljazeera television.
Bin
Laden video: November 2001
In mid-November 2001, Usama Bin Laden spoke to a group of
supporters, possibly in Qandahar, Afghanistan. The meeting was video taped
with the knowledge of Bin Laden and all present. The US government
released a copy of the tape on December 13. A full translation of the
transcript was issued by the British government.
Bin
Laden statement: 3 November 2001
Attacks "Crusaders" and United Nations. BBC transcript
of tape broadcast by al-Jazeera.
Al-Qaeda
statement: 13 October 2001
Warns Muslims in the US and UK not to travel on planes or live in
tall buildings. (BBC)
Al-Qaeda
statement: 10 October 2001
Call for holy war, read by
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, a spokesman for Bin Laden. (BBC)
Bin
Laden statement: 7 October 2001
Full text of video delivered to al-Jazeera television as bombing of
Afghanistan began. (BBC)
Declaration of
jihad against Jews and Crusaders
Signed by bin Laden and others. 23 February, 1998. Alternative
site
Embassy
bombings
Yahoo Full Coverage
State
Department documents
East Africa bombings
Legal complaint against Mohamed al-'Owhali
(Court TV Online)
Bomb
trial transcript - Day 1
See also Day 2,
Day 3,
Day 4,
Day 5,
Day 6,
Day 7,
Day 8,
Day 9,
Day 10,
Day 11,
Day 12,
Day 13
Jamal
Isma'il and others
June 1999
al-Jazeera
television
1998
(Perhaps the most famous interview)
Frontline May 1998
ABC
News 1998
Nida'il Islam
1996
Independent
Interview with Robert Fisk, 6 December, 1993
Bin
Laden
Yahoo Full Coverage
Bin
Laden [Medea]
Indictment
document: bin Laden and others
APB News
Millionaire,
terrorist, fugitive
An up-to-date review of bin Laden's career by Robin Allen and Carola Hoyos
(Financial Times, 14 April, 2001)
Hunting Bin Laden
Based on a Frontline TV programme about bin Laden, his supporters
and the US campaign against them (PBS Online).
Who is Osama bin Laden?
Biographical information (BBC, 20 Dec, 2000)
Osama
bin Laden and the embassy bombings
A collection of useful links. (International Policy Institute on Counter-Terrorism, Israel)
FBI
fact sheet
From the bureau's Ten Most
Wanted Fugitives
Profile of Bin Laden
Emergency Response and Research Institute (ERRI), Chicago, 1998.
See also earlier document, Summary
of Reports Concerning Threats by Osama Bin Laden.
Bin
Laden: aiming at the symptom, not the disease
Guardian Unlimited, 8 December, 2000
The
myth of Usama bin Laden
by Brian Whitaker
(Middle East International, 2 August, 1996)
Yemen
and bin Laden
by Brian Whitaker
(Yemen Gateway, August 1998)
Web
of terror
"Bin laden's international terror network"
(APB news)
Caveman
terrorist spooks the West
Has bin Laden's role
been hyped by western security agencies?
(The Observer, 3
January 1999)
CIA
Unclassified Fact Sheet
(The Smoking Gun website)
Indictment
document
New York District Court
One
of America's Most Wanted
Photos, video,
audio, links, etc.
Who
the heck is that Usamah Bin Laden?
Links to news articles
and other sources
(Mario's
Cyberspace Station)
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FACTS
Full name:
Usamah bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden.
Born:
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the Islamic year 1377 (1957
or 1958), though some reports say he was born a few
years earlier.
Education:
schools in Jeddah; King Abd al-Aziz University,
Jeddah (management and economics).
Status:
married, with children.
The bin Laden family came originally from southern
Yemen. A few of them moved north to Saudi Arabia, where they prospered and were joined by
the rest of the family following British withdrawal from Aden and the Marxist takeover.
Through their construction companies they became the wealthiest non-royal family in the kingdom.
During the Afghan war of the 1980s bin Laden supported the Islamic rebels'
struggle against the Soviet Union. He not only paid for thousands of Muslim volunteers from the Middle East to join the
mujahideen but also went there himself to fight.
Using the resources of his construction business, he blasted guerrilla trails across
the mountains and tunnelled into the rock to create underground hospitals and arms dumps.
In 1989 he moved to Sudan. In 1994 he was formally disowned by his Saudi
relatives and stripped of his Saudi citizenship for "irresponsible activities".
He has been linked to Islamic terrorism in
many countries, including Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Egypt, Iraq,
Jordan, Lebanon, Malaysia, Morocco, the Netherlands, Pakistan, the Philippines, Romania,
Russia, Syria, Turkey, the United Arab Emirates, the United States and Yemen.
BOOKS
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Taliban:
Militant Islam, Oil and Fundamentalism in Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid. Paperback
bin
Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America
Yossef Bodansky. Paperback
The
New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism
Simon Reeve. Hardcover, 1999
Pak
Proxy War - A Story of ISI, bin Laden and Kargil
Rajeev Sharma. Hardcover, 1999
Holy
War, Inc: Inside The Secret World of Osama Bin Laden
Peter Bergen. Hardcover
Usama
Bin Laden's Al-Qaida: Profile of a Terrorist Network
Yonah Alexander,
Michael S. Swetnam. Paperback, 2001
BOOKS
From amazon.co.uk (click
here for amazon.com)
Taliban:
the story of the Afghan warlords
Ahmed Rashid. Paperback, 2001
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the future of terrorism
Simon Reeve. Hardcover, 1999. Also paperback edition
bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America
Yossef Bodansky. Paperback, 2001. Also hardcover edition
Usama Bin Laden's "Al-Qaida"
Yonah Alexander, Michael S. Swetnam. Paperback, 2001
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