# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T15:55:44.657Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Raised in a wealthy Saudi family, bin Laden left the country during the Soviet–Afghan War to fund and arm the Afghan mujahideen, co-founding Maktab al-Khidamat in 1984. He established al-Qaeda four years later and commanded forces through Afghan civil wars before Saudi Arabia expelled him in 1991 for his anti-Western stance. From Sudan and later Taliban-controlled Afghanistan, he directed bombings of the World Trade Center in 1993 and U.S. embassies in East Africa in 1998, declaring holy war on Americans both military and civilian. The operation he planned with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed saw 19 hijackers crash passenger planes into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001, killing nearly 3,000 and injuring 25,000. The U.S. invaded Afghanistan and hunted him for a decade until Navy SEALs found his compound in Abbottabad and killed him there on 2 May 2011.