22 shots from the life of Osama bin Laden and his family
Osama bin Laden is the leader of the Islamic terrorist organization Al-Qaeda. He was recognized as terrorist No. 1 in the United States and other countries. According to the CIA, he was killed on May 2, 2011 in Pakistan.
In this collection you will see very different photos of Osama bin Laden and his relatives. In these pictures you will see Osama as a teenager, Osama as a loving father, Osama as a Dushman, and finally Osama as the leader of al-Qaeda.
(Total 22 photos)
1. Osama bin Laden (second from right) during a visit to the Swedish city of Falun in 1971. Pictured are several local residents, including Christina and Lars Akelblad, who owned the Astoria Hotel, where Osama and his brother Salem stayed during one of their trips to Sweden. In 1971, 23 members of the wealthy bin Laden family visited Falun, and one of the older brothers held a business meeting at Volvo. Osama was remembered then as a calm, restrained 16-year-old guy who did not stand out from the crowd.
2. 1978: Osama bin Laden sits in a cave in the Jalalabad region of Afghanistan. It was then that he first took up arms.
3. 1980s: Osama bin Laden with Afghans in the Jalalabad region during the war against Soviet forces. Osama participated in this war for almost ten years.
4. 1989: Osama (right) in Afghanistan.
6. 1989: Osama during the war with the USSR.
7. 1989: Osama (right) in Afghanistan.
8. 1989: Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan during the war with the USSR.
10. Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 80s.
11. Osama bin Laden over a map of Afghanistan in 1998.
12. Osama bin Laden at a meeting with a group of reporters in the mountains of the southern Afghan province of Helmand December 24, 1998. Bin Laden was later implicated in a series of terrorist attacks, including the 1993 World Trade Center bombing in New York, the 1995 car bombing in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia in 1996, in which 19 American soldiers were killed and in the 1998 attacks on the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
13. Osama bin Laden during the shooting in 2001.
14. The attention of the entire world community turned out to be focused on the personality of Osama bin Laden after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, as a result of which about three thousand people died. The picture shows a frame from the Al Jazeera TV program, which was shown on the second anniversary of the September 11 tragedy.
15. An undated still from a video that aired in 2007. In this video, Osama talks about the importance of jihad and glorifies the martyrs who died in the name of Allah. Osama is believed to have crossed the Pakistani border after US and British troops launched an offensive into Afghanistan in late 2001.
16. Osama bin Laden and his son Ali, who at the time was 10 years old.
17. Omar bin Laden, 26-year-old son of al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, with his wife Jane Felix-Brown before airing on Italian television in 2008.20. An image of Osama bin Laden's possible age change that was released by the US State Department and the FBI in January 2010.
21. Osama bin Laden sits on the floor with his in a shelter in Afghanistan, November 2001.
22. Osama bin Laden was killed on May 2, 2011 in a mansion in the city of Abbottabad, 50 km from Islamabad, as a result of a joint 4-hour operation by US and Pakistani special forces. This was stated on the air of the state TV channel by the head of Pakistani intelligence, Ahmed Pasha.
