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Osama Bin Laden (Attacks pre 9/11 (1992 Yemen (AQ claimed responsibility…
Osama Bin Laden
Attacks pre 9/11
1992 Yemen
AQ claimed responsibility for bombing a hotel in Yemen where 100 U.S. military personnel were awaiting deployment to Somalia for Operation Restore Hope. No one was killed.
1993 World Trade center
the reputed key bomb maker Ramzi Ahmad Yusuf, suggests possible Al Qaeda involvement. As noted above, Abd al Rahman was convicted for plots related to this attack. •
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June 1993
members of Al Qaeda allegedly aided the Egyptian militant Islamic Group in a nearly successful assassination attempt against the visiting Mubarak.
November 1995
bombing of a U.S. military advisory facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, claimed on Saudi television to have been inspired by bin Laden and other radical Islamist leaders. Five Americans were killed in that attack. Saudi leaders do not attribute the attacks directly to Bin Laden or Al Qaeda.
August 1998
bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed about 300. On August 20, 1998, the United States launched a cruise missile strike against bin Laden’s training camps in Afghanistan, reportedly missing him by a few hours
October 2000
AQ activists attacked the U.S.S. Cole in a ship-borne suicide bombing while the Cole was docked the harbor of Aden, Yemen. The ship was damaged and 17 sailors were killed
Abdullah al Azzam
The intellectual architect of the jihas against the 1979-1989 soviet occupation of Afghanistan, and of AQ itself. he cast the Soviet invasion as an attempted conquest by a non-Muslim power of sacred Muslim territory and people
1984
structured this assistance by establishing a network of recruiting and fund-raising offices in the Arab world, Europe, and the United States
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August, 2, 1990
Iraq invasion- Bin Laden returned home to Saudi Arabia in 1989, after the soviet withdrawl from Afghanistan that february
he lobbied Saudi officials not to host U.S. combat troops to defend Saudi Arabia against an Iraqi invasion, arguing instead for the raising of a “mujahedin” army to oust Iraq from Kuwait.
1991
after his rift with the Saudi leadership, Bin Laden relocated to Sudan, buying property there which he used to host and train Al Qaeda militants—this time, for use against the United States and its interests
During the 1990s, bin Laden and Zawahiri transformed Al Qaeda into a global threat to U.S. national security, culminating in the September 11, 2001, attacks
deny Al Qaeda safe haven in Afghanistan and to deny the Taliban the ability to overthrow the Afghan government
these leaders continue to occasionally issue audiotapes and statements inspiring supporters and operatives to continue to be looking for ways to attack the U.S. homeland or U.S. allies and to threaten such attacks
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