Terrorism is world’s biggest threat. Many countries of the world are fighting with terrorism from many years. Every terror group has its own belief and curtain values for which they are fighting for. Every group has its own leader. Who is god for some people where at the same time most wanted person for some of the countries. When we hear the name terrorist some of the few names come in many people’s mind and one of them is Osama bin laden. The Al Qaeda leader who shocked the world with his terror mind. Bin laden Group hijacked 4 passenger planes. They drove two of them on the twin towers in New York City. And rest of two planes, one of them drove in the Pentagon and another one crashed in rural Pennsylvania. In just one day, Bin laden terror group killed almost of 3000 of peoples.
Osama who was he? What he was fighting for? Why He was on top 10 most wanted list of FBI?
The full name of Osama is Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden. He was born on 10th March 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arab, he borne in one of the richest family. His father named Mohammed Bin Laden was billionaire and Osama was his child from his tenth wife named Hamida al attas. He was upraised as a devout Wahhabi Muslim. He lost his father in 1967 in plane crash in Saudi Arab when the American pilot misjudges the landing. Osama completed his high schooling in Jeddah. As of known he was between 6 ft 4 in to 6 ft 6 in (193–198 cm) in height and weigh up about 73 kg around 160 pounds. Osama completed his Bachelor’s Degree in Civil engineer. There has been lot of myth about his studies about what kind of student he was or what all the degrees he have .While completing his university education Osama was mainly paying attention in his religion. Therefore he was in drawn in “interpreting of Jihad” . This is where he drawn in to the Soviet war against Afghanistan. Bin Laden went to Pakistan in 1979, and started working with Abdulla Azzam by providing him money and machinery to fight against Afghanistan. There are many different stories of how he meets to Abdulla azzam. This was the crucial time for bin laden. This is the time when he made his contacts all over in terrorist world with his money and power. It is also said that during 1979 United States also form an alliance through Pakistan ISI to “Mujahedeen” to provide money and machinery to fight against in Afghanistan. Throughout this Osama was able to build up his contacts with some of the top officers from ISI which helped him out tremendously in near future. (Structure and forming of al Qaeda, 2014) Somewhere around in1983 to 1984 Osama and azzam were able to form a group which was called as “Maktab al-Khidamat. The entire goal of this group was to provide manpower fight against Soviet puppet regime and the Demographic public of Afghanistan. Osama established his camp in the Pakistan. He was giving training to all volunteers from all over the Muslim world to fight against in soviets. Osama was providing services to Jihad fighters such as paying for their flight, accommodations and paperwork from Pakistani authorities etc. During this period bin laden’s participation in battle activities gave him great idolized in Arab worlds. Osama’s first win over ‘battle of jaji’ with his 50 volunteers left mark on media as successful military chief and attracting many of devotee for their cause. In 1988 bin laden had come apart from azzam. Later in 1988 Osama was much concern about forming a strong group. This is where he started forming and structuring of Organization. According to many writers Laden had meeting with several senior leaders of “Egyptian Islamic Jihad, and azzam” in Peshawar, Pakistan. On August 11th 1988 where they all decided to join bin Laden's money with the proficiency of the Islamic Jihad organization and take up the jihadist cause in a different place after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan. That is what known today as Al-Qaeda. Which is