On May 2, 2011, according to the CIA, Osama bin Laden, the leader of the Islamic terrorist organization Al Qaeda, was assassinated. He was recognized as the No. 1 terrorist in the United States and other countries.
In this collection you will see very different photos of Osama bin Laden and his relatives. In these pictures you will see Osama the teenager, Osama the loving father, Osama the dushman, and finally Osama the leader of al-Qaeda.
1. Osama bin Laden (second from right) while visiting the Swedish city of Falun in 1971. The picture shows several locals, including Christina and Lars Akelblad, who owned the Astoria Hotel, where Osama and his brother Salem stayed on one of their trips to Sweden. In 1971, 23 members of the wealthy bin Laden family visited Falun, and one of the eldest brothers had a business meeting at Volvo. Osama was remembered then as a calm, restrained 16-year-old guy, not standing 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 area during the war against Soviet forces. Osama participated in this war for almost ten years.
4. 1989: Osama (right) in Afghanistan.
5.1989.
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.
9.1989.
10. Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 80s.
11. Osama bin Laden on the 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 on December 24, 1998. Bin Laden was later involved in a series of terrorist acts, including the 1993 explosion at the World Trade Center in New York, the explosion of an explosive-filled car in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia in 1995, and the explosion of a truck in the barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1996, as a result of which 19 American soldiers were killed and in an attack in 1998 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 was riveted to the personality of Osama bin Laden after the September 11 attacks on the WTC and the Pentagon, which killed about three thousand people. The picture shows a shot from the program of Al-Jazeera TV channel, which was shown on the second anniversary of the September 11 tragedy.
15. Undated frame from the video, which was shown in 2007. In this video, Osama talks about the importance of jihad and glorifies the martyrs who died in the name of Allah. It is believed that Osama crossed the Pakistani border after US and British forces launched an offensive in Afghanistan at the end of 2001.
16. Osama bin Laden and his son Ali, who at that 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 broadcasting on Italian television in 2008.
18. The son of Osama bin Laden, Hamza bin Laden, in an undated video that was shot during the teachings of al-Qaeda.
19. Abdullah bin Laden, the eldest son of Osama bin Laden, during an interview in Riyadh in 2001.
20. Image of a possible change with the age of Osama bin Laden, which was published by the US Department of State and the FBI in January 2010.
21. Osama bin Laden sits on the floor with his AK-47 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 of US and Pakistani special forces. What the head of the Pakistani intelligence Ahmed Pasha said on the state television channel.
