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History ( Radio Play ) bin Laden. Zoe chan(1) Ophelia fung (12) Karen chan(3) Maggie mak(21) Ella choi(8) Stephanie ng(22). Timeline.
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History ( Radio Play )bin Laden Zoe chan(1) Ophelia fung (12) Karen chan(3) Maggie mak(21) Ella choi(8) Stephanie ng(22)
Timeline • 1957: osama bin laden was born in Riyadh, one of some 54 children born to Mohammad bin Laden, a building tycoon. His mother was of Syrian origin. • 1984: Bin Laden travels to Afghanistan, responding to calls for a jihad, or holy Islamic war, against the Soviet occupying force. There, he finances and takes command of a force of some 20,000 Islamic fighters recruited from around the world. • 1988: Bin Laden founded his group Al-Qaeda (the base). • 1991: A US-led alliance launches a war to expel Iraqi forces from Kuwait, which Iraq had occupied the previous year. Bin Laden declares jihad against the United States because it has based forces in his native Saudi Arabia, where Islam's two most holy places are located. • 1992: Bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia, but his support for violent Islamic extremist groups in Egypt and Algeria leads his home country to his explusion and the cancellation of his passport.
Timeline • 1993: An explosion in the basement of the World Trade Center in New York kills six people and injures around 1,000. The attack is later blamed on Al-Qaeda. • 1996: A truck loaded with explosives destroys a building at the US military base of Khobar in Saudi Arabia. Nineteen US nationals are killed and 386 are wounded. Sudan forces Bin Laden to leave and he resurfaces in Afghanistan where the Taliban movement has just seized Kabul. • 1998: Near-simultaneous bomb attacks against US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam kill 224 people, most of them Africans, and injure thousands. The US retaliates Bin Laden training camps in Afghanistan and Sudan with cruise missiles, killing at least 20 people. • 1999: The US Federal Bureau of Investigation places bin Laden on its "10 most wanted" list. • 2000: A suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden in Yemen kills 17 US Marines and wounds 38. The attack is attributed to Al-Qaeda.
Illustrations In 1992, Osama bin laden takes this photo • wearing a plain white turban • stopped wearing the traditional saudi male headdress
Illustrations • In 1996, osama bin laden said "And by God's grace, the men ... are going to have a successful result in killing Americans and getting rid of them.“(Jihad Declaration)
Illustrations • In 1998, Osama bin laden attacks against us embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-salaam kill 224 people, most of them are Africans , and thousands of people were injured.