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1957

-Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia. He was the 17th of 52 children of Muhammad Awad bin Laden, a construction magnate immigrant from Yemen

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1991

-Bin Laden was expelled from Saudi Arabia because of his anti-government activities

-He took refuge in Sudan

-Eventually, Saudi Arabia revokes his citizenship & his family disowns him as well 

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1996

-The US & Saudi Arabian governments pressured the Sudanese to expel Bin Laden from their country

-Bin Laden fled with his 10 children & three wives to Afghanistan 

-Bin Laden declared a jihad against U.S. forces

-19 U.S. soldiers died in a bombing of the Khobar military complex in Saudi Arabia

-The U.S. indicts bin Laden on charges of training the people involved in the 1993 attack that killed 18 U.S. servicemen in Somalia 

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1998

-Bin Laden declares that Muslims should kill Americans, civilians included, where they could find them

-On August 7th, a pair of truck bombs exploded outside the U.S. embassies in Nairobi, Kenya & Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, killing 224 people 

-On August 20th, U.S. President Clinton ordered cruise missile attacks against suspected terrorist training camps in Afghanistan & a pharmaceutical plant in Khartoum, Sudan, that he says was involved in making weapons 

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2001

-In February, bin Laden appears in public at his son's wedding in Kandahar, Afghanistan where the Taliban's spiritual leader lives 

-Four of bin Laden's alleged supporters are convicted May 29th of the 1998 bombings of the U.S. embassies in Africa

-Following the September 11th terrorism attacks , the U.S. government named bin Laden a prime suspect