Osama bin laden

Timeline of Osama bin Laden

By taetae1998

  • Founded group Al-Qaeda

    Bin Laden founded his Al - Qaeda (the base) that would focus on symbolic acts of terrorism instead of military campaigns. Bin Laden vowed that it was al-Qaida, and not the Americans, who would one day prove to be “master of this world.”

  • Explosion in the basement of the World Trade Centre in New York

    An explosion in the basement of the World Trade Centre in New York kills six people and injuries 1,000. Attack later blamed on Al - Qaeda

  • Bomb kills US military advisors to Saudi national guard

    A bomb kills US military advisors to Saudi national guard. Five US soldiers killed and more than 60 people were injured

  • Truck loaded with explosives destroyes a building at the US military base of Khobar in Saudi Arabia

    A truck loaded with explosives destroys a building at the US military base of Khobar in Saudi Arabia. Nieteen US nationals are killed and 386 were wounded.

  • Bomb attacks against US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam

    He killed 224 people, most of the Africans, and injurred thousands.

  • Bin Laden training camps were hit with cruise missiles

    The US retaliates Bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan and Sudan with cruise misslies killing at least 20 people

  • Suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole

    A suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole in the port of Aden in Yemen kills 17 US Marines and wounded 38. The attack was attributed to Al - Qaeda

  • Two hijacked US airlines crach into the twin towers of the World Trade Centre

    Two hijacked US airlines crash into the twins towers of the World Trade Centre in New York, which subsequently collepse. A third hijacked plane crashes into the Pentage outside Washigton and a fourth in rural Pennsylvania. The attacks killed around 3,000 people.

  • Christmas Day Bombing of US airlines

    Claims botched Christmas Day bombing of US airlines and threatens more strikes on US tragets.

  • Bin Laden killed in a firefight with covert US forces

    Bin Laden killed in a firefight with covert US forces in the Pakistani city of Abbottobad, northeast of the capital Islamabad, Obama announces in a television address