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Osama bin Laden

1957 - 2011

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Osama bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian–born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union, and supported the Bosnian mujahideen during the Yugoslav Wars. Opposed to the United States' foreign policy in the Middle East, Bin Laden declared war on the U.S. in 1996 and advocated attacks targeting US assets in various countries, and supervised the execution of September 11 attacks inside the U.S. in 2001.Bin Laden was born in Riyadh to the aristocratic bin Laden family. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Osama bin Laden has received more than 32,540,748 page views. His biography is available in 143 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 138 in 2019). Osama bin Laden is the 5th most popular extremist (up from 6th in 2019), the 11th most popular biography from Saudi Arabia (up from 12th in 2019) and the most popular Saudi Arabian Extremist.

Osama bin Laden was the leader of Al-Qaeda, a terrorist organization that carried out the September 11th attacks on the United States.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Osama bin Laden ranks 5 out of 283. Before him are Jack the Ripper, Lee Harvey Oswald, Zodiac Killer, and John Wilkes Booth. After him are Gavrilo Princip, Elizabeth Báthory, Charles Manson, Ted Bundy, Herostratus, Gilles de Rais, and Man in the Iron Mask.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Osama bin Laden ranks 1. After him are Hamid Karzai, Qasem Soleimani, Hans Zimmer, Donald Tusk, Bongbong Marcos, Daniel Day-Lewis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Aki Kaurismäki, Dolph Lundgren, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, and Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. Among people deceased in 2011, Osama bin Laden ranks 5. Before him are Steve Jobs, Muammar Gaddafi, Kim Jong-il, and Václav Havel. After him are Elizabeth Taylor, Otto von Habsburg, Cesária Évora, Svetlana Alliluyeva, Peter Falk, Wangari Maathai, and Sócrates.

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In Saudi Arabia

Among people born in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden ranks 11 out of 354. Before him are Uthman (574), Abu Bakr (573), Husayn ibn Ali (626), Khalid ibn al-Walid (592), Aisha (605), and Khadija bint Khuwaylid (556). After him are Salman of Saudi Arabia (1935), Hasan ibn Ali (624), Muawiyah I (603), Bilal ibn Rabah (580), Aminah (557), and Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab (1703).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Saudi Arabia

Among extremists born in Saudi Arabia, Osama bin Laden ranks 1. After him are Ibn al-Khattab (1969), Abu Mohammad al-Julani (1981), Hamza bin Laden (1989), Wail al-Shehri (1973), Satam al-Suqami (1976), Hamza al-Ghamdi (1980), and Waleed al-Shehri (1978).

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