Osama Bin Laden

Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was the founder of alQaeda the terrorist organization responsible for the September 11 attacks on the United States and numerous other masscasualty attacks against civilian and military targets He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings From 2001 to 2011 bin Laden was a major target of the War on Terror with a US25 million bounty by the Federal Bureau of Investigation After being placed on the FBIs Most Wanted list bin Laden remained in hiding during three US presidential administrations On May 2 2011 bin Laden was shot and killed inside a private residential compound in Abbottabad Pakistan by US Navy SEALs and CIA operatives in a covert operation ordered by US President Barack Obama Shortly after his death bin Ladens body was buried at sea AlQaeda acknowledged his death on May 6 2011 vowing to retaliate