* 1996 – Osama bin Laden issues message entitled ' A declaration of war against the Americans occupying the land of the two holy places.

God praise everybody who trained and helped me, namely the leader Sheikh Osama bin Laden.

* Death of Osama bin Laden

Law professor Ken Gromley's book The Death of American Virtue reveals that Clinton escaped a 1996 assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden.

The report said the subsequent US investigation into the plot " revealed that it was masterminded by a Saudi terrorist living in Afghanistan named Osama bin Laden ".

Capturing Osama bin Laden had been an objective of the United States government from the presidency of Bill Clinton until bin Laden's death in 2011.

During major breaking news events, the BBC News Channel has been broadcast on BBC One ; examples of special broadcasts include the 11 September 2001 attacks, 7 July 2005 London bombings, the capture of Saddam Hussein, and the death of Osama bin Laden.

bin Laden () is an Arabic language surname synonymous with Osama bin Laden ( 1957 – 2011 ), it may also pertain to the Saudi Binladin Group, a holding company for the assets of the bin Laden family, and other notable members of Osama's family.

* Abdallah Osama bin Laden ( born 1976 ), Saudi businessman and son of Osama bin Laden

* Bakr bin Laden, Saudi businessman and half-brother of Osama bin Laden

* Hamza bin Laden ( born 1991 ), Saudi al-Qaeda figure and son of Osama bin Laden

* Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden ( 1908 – 1967 ), Saudi businessman who amassed the bin Laden family fortune, father of Osama bin Laden

* Omar bin Laden ( born 1981 ), Saudi son of Osama bin Laden

First was a Sudanese Pharmaceutical company suspected of assisting Osama Bin Laden in making chemical weapons.

* Saad bin Laden ( 1979 – 2009 ), Saudi al-Qaeda figure and son of Osama bin Laden

* In Afghanistan, the shura, a council of 1, 000 village clerics and mullahs, issued an edict that called on the Taliban to persuade Osama bin Laden to leave Afghanistan, but the United States rejected the suggestion.

Eventually, the State Department issued a release stating that while Osama bin Laden had once had considerable holdings in Sudanese gum arabic production, he divested himself of these when he was expelled from Sudan in 1996.

Salon. com reports that the group issued public approvals for the September 11, 2001 attacks and the organization's rallies have been reported by the Christian Science Monitor to end in chanting " jihad " and " Osama Bin Laden ".

Meanwhile, Ayman al-Zawahiri, the deputy to al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, issued a message calling for all Muslims to go to Somalia.

In early 2006, Blum briefly became the subject of widespread media attention when Osama bin Laden issued a public statement in which he quoted Blum and recommended that all Americans read Rogue State: A Guide to the World's Only Superpower.

In July 2006, the Italian judiciary power issued arrest warrants for several SISMI officials involved in the joint CIA-SISMI operation resulting in the unlawful extraordinary rendition of Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, which SISMI Director Pollari had formally denied in testimony before a committee of the national legislature.

The CIA issued a report in August 2004 that concluded, according to Knight-Ridder reporters, that there was " no conclusive evidence that the regime harbored Osama bin Laden associate Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi.

In 2008 an Islamic scholar in Lucknow, shahar qazi Mufti Abul Irfan Mian Firangi Mahali, issued a fatwa against Naik, saying that he supported Osama bin Laden, and that his teachings were un-Islamic.

The term " istihlal " came to prominence in the Western news media on 11 March 2005, the first anniversary of the Madrid bombing attacks of 2004, when the Islamic Commission of Spain ( La Comisión Islámica de España ) issued a fatwa, or religious opinion, denouncing Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda for engaging in istihlal with respect to the waging of jihad through terrorism, and the killing of women, children, and noncombatants.

* Full text of the fatwa issued by La Comisión Islámica de España against Osama bin Laden and Al Qa ' ida.

Originally known as Task Force 121, it was formed in the summer of 2003, when the military merged two existing Special Operations units, one hunting Osama bin Laden in and around Afghanistan, and the other tracking Sadaam Hussein in Iraq.

She has written two books called " In The Hands of the Taliban " and " Ticket to Paradise " and is currently writing and researching for two other titles including a biography of Osama bin Laden.

He is also known as a teacher and mentor of Osama bin Laden, and persuaded bin Laden to come to Afghanistan and help the jihad, though the two differed as to where the next front in global jihad should be after the withdrawal of the Soviets from Afghanistan.

He attended two meetings from August 11 – 20 in 1988, along with Osama bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Mohammed Atef, Mamdouh Mahmud Salim, Wael Hamza Julaidan, and Mohammed Loay Bayazid and eight others, to discuss the founding of " al-Qaeda ".

In 1998, he wrote a piece on Osama Bin Laden and his training camps in Afghanistan just before Al-Qaeda attacked two US embassies in Africa.

* It is referenced briefly in the movie Planet Terror, when Lt. Muldoon ( played by Bruce Willis ) describes that he killed Osama bin Laden by putting " two in his heart, one in his computer ".

It included both parodies of actual LoD villains ( Solomon Grundy, Cheetah, and Black Manta ), at least two Marvel villain parodies ( Doctor Octopus and Doctor Doom ) and villains from the South Park universe ( such as Professor Chaos, General Disarray, David Blaine and Saddam Hussein, as well as Osama Bin Laden and Kim Jong Il ).

Osama bin Laden's expressed hostility to Saddam's regime, critical assessment of evidence from the Iraqi National Congress ( the source of most of the claims of cooperation between the two ) as well as the paucity of evidence for the alleged links, particularly for any substantial collaboration, have led most journalists and intelligence analysts not associated with or supporters of the Bush administration to dismiss the claimed links.

Meanwhile, in Afghanistan, Schofield's girlfriend Elizabeth Gant leads a group of Marines along with Mother to a cave system where Osama bin Laden's number two man is.

* In April 2002, in the case United States v. Osama Awadallah, after Awadallah testified before a grand jury that he had met with two of the September 11, 2001 hijackers, but could not remember their names, Scheindlin dismissed a perjury charge against him and found that Awadallah's prolonged detention without actual criminal charges was based on misrepresentations and omissions by the government and could not be justified under existing law.

Criticism was aimed at Feherty for this suggestive comment about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Leader Harry Reid: From my own experience visiting the troops in the Middle East, I can tell you this, though: despite how the conflict has been portrayed by our glorious media, if you gave any U. S. soldier a gun with two bullets in it, and he found himself in an elevator with Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and Osama bin Laden, there's a good chance that Nancy Pelosi would get shot twice, and Harry Reid and bin Laden would be strangled to death.

Fisk is one of the few Western journalists to have interviewed Osama bin Laden — three times ( all published by The Independent: 6 December 1993, 10 July 1996, and 22 March 1997 ).

Caricatures often exaggerate facial features to make a face more easily recognised in association with a pronounced portion of the face of the individual in question — for example, a caricature of Osama bin Laden might focus on his facial hair and nose ; a caricature of George W. Bush might enlarge his ears to the size of an elephant's ; a caricature of Jay Leno may pronounce his head and chin ; and a caricature of Mick Jagger might enlarge his lips.

Times Person of the Year 2001 — immediately following the September 11, 2001 attacks — was New York City mayor Rudolph Giuliani, although the stated rules of selection, the individual or group of individuals who have had the biggest effect on the year's news, made Osama bin Laden a more likely choice.

* 2002: Gold Single — " Osama Yo ' Mama "

Militant leader Doku Umarov — dubbed " Russia's Osama Bin Laden " — took responsibility for the attacks.

# Osama bin Laden — Terrorism

He has been described as " closely linked to al-Qaeda " — having released prepared statements from Osama bin Laden after the 1998 United States embassy bombings — but also as the " Tottenham Ayatollah ", " little more than a loudmouth ," and " a figure of fun.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the attack's alleged mastermind, had wanted to remove at least one member — Khalid al-Mihdhar — from the operation, but he was overruled by Osama bin Laden.

The Australian satirical comedy team The Chaser have also frequently used the Gunston Method to ambush unwitting targets — examples include the Julian Morrow character the " Citizens ' Infringment Officer ", and the team's now-legendary stunt in which they managed to penetrate a tight security cordon around the APEC Forum, despite the fact that Chas Licciardello was masquerading as Osama Bin Laden.