Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (pron.: /oÊËsÉËmÉ bɪn moÊËhÉËmɨd bɪn ÉËwÉËd bɪn ËlÉËdÉn/; Arabic: أساÙ
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د Ø¨Ù Ø¹ÙØ¶ Ø¨Ù ÙØ§Ø¯Ùâ, ʾUsÄmah bin Muḥammad bin Ê¿AwaḠbin LÄdin; March 10, 1957 â May 2, 2011) was the founder of al-Qaeda, the militant Islamist organization that claimed responsibility for the September 11 attacks on the United States, along with numerous other mass-casualty attacks against civilian and military targets.[2][3][4] He was a member of the wealthy Saudi bin Laden family, and an ethnic Yemeni Kindite.[5]
Prediction made by UCLA geographers Thomas Gillespie, John Agnew, and a whole class of undergrads regarding where Osama Bin Laden might be hiding turned out to be surprisingly accurate, surprising scientists and authorities alike. They created a probabilistic model which concluded that there is a 88.9% chance that he is hiding in a city less [...]
Wed, May 4, 2011
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