To Read the Full Story. Subscribe Sign In. Continue reading your article with a WSJ membership. Resume Subscription We are delighted that you'd like to resume your subscription. Please click confirm to resume now. Then, on October 12, , a small boat loaded with explosives plowed into the hull of the U. Cole, an American naval destroyer docked off the coast of Yemen. Bin Laden took credit for that incident as well.
A federal grand jury in the United States indicted bin Laden on charges related to the embassy bombings, but with no defendant there could be no trial. Meanwhile, al Qaeda operatives were busy planning the biggest attack of all: the September 11, attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. For almost ten years, he remained in hiding, issuing fatwas and taunts over radio and television, recruiting enthusiastic young jihadis to his cause and plotting new attacks. Meanwhile, the CIA and other intelligence officials searched in vain for his hiding place.
Finally, in August , they traced bin Laden to a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, about 35 miles from Islamabad. For months, CIA agents watched the house while drones photographed it from the sky.
Finally, it was time to move. They found the al Qaeda leader in an upstairs bedroom with a pistol and an assault rifle nearby and shot him in the head and chest, killing him instantly. In September , President Donald Trump confirmed that bin Laden's son, Hamza bin Laden, who had been viewed as a potential successor to the al Qaeda leader, was killed in a U. But if you see something that doesn't look right, click here to contact us! Subscribe for fascinating stories connecting the past to the present.
While under immense time pressure to vacate the premises before Pakistani military arrived, they quickly swept up a treasure trove Since declaring a Special Forces took him out during a raid on the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan where he and some of his family were hiding out.
He then headed to King Abdul Aziz University in Jeddah, where some say he received a degree in public administration in Others claim he received a degree in civil engineering, in an effort to join the family business. But bin Laden would have little chance to use his degree. When the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan in , bin Laden joined the Afghan resistance, believing it was his duty as a Muslim to fight the occupation.
After the Soviets withdrew from the country in , bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia as a hero, and the United States referred to him and his soldiers as "Freedom Fighters. Yet bin Laden was quickly disappointed with what he believed was a corrupt Saudi government, and his frustration with the U.
Bin Laden spoke publicly against the Saudi government's reliance on American troops, believing their presence profaned sacred soil. After several attempts to silence bin Laden, the Saudis banished the former hero. He lived in exile in Sudan beginning in By , bin Laden had formed a secret network known as al Qaeda Arabic for "the Base" , comprised of militant Muslims he had met while serving in Afghanistan. Soldiers were recruited for their ability to listen, their good manners, obedience, and their pledge to follow their superiors.
Their goal was to take up the jihadist cause around the world, righting perceived wrongs under the accordance of pure, Islamic law. Under bin Laden's leadership, the group funded and began organizing global attacks worldwide. By , after continued advocacy of extremist jihad, the Saudi government forced bin Laden to relinquish his Saudi citizenship and confiscated his passport.
Undeterred, bin Laden began executing his violent plans, with the goal of drawing the United States into war. His hope was that Muslims, unified by the battle, would create a single, true Islamic state. In , to forward his goal, al Qaeda detonated truck bombs against U.
The next year, they claimed responsibility for killing tourists in Egypt, and in they bombed the U. Bin Laden's actions abroad did not go unnoticed by the Sudanese government, and he was exiled from their country in Not able to return to Saudi Arabia, bin Laden took refuge in Afghanistan, where he received protection from the country's ruling Taliban militia. While under the protection of the Taliban, bin Laden issued a series of fatwas, religious statements, which declared a holy war against the United States.
Among the accusations reared at the offending country were the pillaging of natural resources in the Muslim world, and assisting the enemies of Islam. By , bin Laden had attempted, and often successfully executed attacks on several countries using the help of al Qaeda trained terrorists and his seemingly bottomless financial resources.
On September 11, , bin Laden would deliver his most devastating blow to the United States.
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