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Usāmah bin Muḥammad bin `Awaḍ bin Lādin (Arabic: أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن; born 10 March 1957), most often identified as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is the founder of the jihadist organization Al-Qaeda. He has been designated a terrorist by scholars, journalists, analysts and law enforcement agencies. In conjunction with several other Islamic militant leaders, bin Laden issued two fatwa in 1996 and then again in 1998 that Muslims should force the United States and its allies to withdraw their military forces from the Arabian peninsula, by attacking American military and civilian targets. |