The Life and Death of Osama Bin Laden

THE LIFE & DEATH OF OSAMA BIN LADEN TIMELINE OF A TERRORIST 1969 Osama Bin Laden inherits $80 million when his father dies in a helicopter crash. 1984 Responding to a call for Jihad (holy Islamic war). Bin Laden travels to Afghanistan to finance & command a force of 20,000 Islamic fighters against the Soviets. FEBRUARY 26, 1993 SEPTEMBER 11, 2001 1988 OCTOBER 12, 2000 NOVEMBER 17.1997 Bin Laden founds Al-Qaeda. JUNE 25, 1996 1989 The Soviet Union withdraws from Afghanistan. AUGUST 7. 1998 3,302 1991 Bin Laden declares Jihad against the United States in response to military action in Kuwait. AUGUST 7, 1998 1992 TOTAL VICTIMS Bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia, however he is soon exiled for supporting violent Islamic extremist groups. 1993 Al-daeda bombs the basement of the World Trade Center in New York, killing siK people and injuring 1,000 | 224 1996 A truck bomb destroys a building on the US military base of Khobar in Saudi Arabia. 19 US citizens are killed, and 386 are wounded. 2,974 DEATH TOLLS OF MAJOR ATTACKS 1997 Bin Laden finances the Luxor massacre of November 17, killing 62 civilans. 700 1998 600 Twin bombings of US embassies in Nairobi and Dar-es-Salaam kill 224 people and injure thousands. US retaliates by launching missiles at Bin Laden's training camps in Afghanistan, killing at least 20. 500 400 300 200 1999 100 The US Federal Bureau of Investigation places Bin Laden on its "10 most wanted" list. 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 201 2000 CASUALTIES INCURRED BY RETALIATING FORCES Al-Qaeda suicide attack on the destroyer USS Cole In the port of Aden in Yemen kills 17 US Marines $52,000,000 2001 September 11, 2001: 2,974 people killed when four planes are hijacked. Two crash into the World Trade Center, on smashes into the Pentagon, and the fourth crash lands in rural Pennsylvania, 2003 REWARD OFFERED FOR OSAMA'S HEAD Bin Laden releases threats of more attacks, and also offers a truce to the US. 2010 $3 TRILLION Bin Laden claims responsibility for the botched Christmas Day bombing of a US airliner, and threatens more strikes on US targets. TOTAL COST INCURAED BY BIN LADEN'S TERRORIST ATTACKS 2011 Bin Laden is killed in a firefight with covert US forces in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad, northeast of the capital Islamabad. $3.7 TRILLION 2012 US FEDERAL BUDGET Osama Bin Laden was killed on May 1st, 2011 by a team of 24 US Navy SEALS from the Naval Special Warfare Development Group under command of the Join Special Operations Command and the CIA. They raided the compound in two super stealth Black Hawk helicopters, one of which was damaged upon attack and then destoyed. ABBOTTABAD 24 NAVY SEALS (SEAL TEAM SIX) 2 SUPER STEALTH BLACK HAWK HELICOPTERS PAKISTAN 11 feet high 7 foot privacy wall Opaque windows 12 feet high 10 feet high 13 feet high BIN LADEN'S HIDEOUT COMPOUND 18 feet high 12 feet high TOTAL TIME OF ATTACK: 40 MINUTES SOURCES: http://www.pbs.org/wgbhvpages/frontline/shows/binladen/wha/bio html http://en wikipedia.org/wikiOsama bin Laden http://www.infuplease.comspot/osamabinladen html http://www.telegraph.co.ukinews/worldnews/asia/pakistan8487477/Timeline-Osama-bin-Ladens-life-history.html http://www.fbi.gowwanted'topten/usama-bin-laden hittp://www.cfrorg/terronist-organizations/al-qaeda-k-al-qaida-al-gaida126 http://news.yahoo.com/slyblogexclusive/20110506/pl_yblogexclusivethe-cost-of-bin-laden-3-trilion-over 15-years http://icasualties org e Wpenia.org/wikisama bin LadenEarly atacks and aid for attacks http://en wikipedia.org/wikiUnited_States_federal budget BROUGHT TO YOU BY burial insurance.org DESIGNED BY KILLER INFOGRAPHICS