Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his killing in 2011. A Salafi jihadist, bin Laden worked to establish a pan-Islamist caliphate by using al-Qaeda to organize and fund jihadist militants and terrorists worldwide. Al-Qaeda's terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001 directly killed 2,977 victims, and resulted in the global war on terror. Bin Laden also led al-Qaeda and its allies' efforts in the 1992, 1996 Afghan Civil War, the Algerian Civil War (1992, 2002), and the Bosnian War (1992, 1995), and was…