The life of Osama bin Laden (23 photos)

Osama was killed. And drowned. And it has come to such a life?



1. Osama bin Laden (second from right) during a visit to the Swedish town of Falun in 1971. In the picture - a few locals, including Christina and Lars Akelblad who owned the Hotel Astoria, where he stopped Osama and his brother Salem during one of their visits to Sweden In 1971, 23 members of a wealthy family of bin Laden visited the Falun, as a senior brothers held a business meeting in the company of Volvo. Osama remembered then restrained calm 16-year-old guy does not stand out from the crowd.



2. 1978: Osama bin Laden is sitting in a cave near Jalalabad in Afghanistan. That's when he first took up arms.



3. 1980: Osama bin Laden with the Afghans in the area of ​​Jalalabad during the war against the Soviet forces. Osama was in the war almost a decade.



4. 1989: Osama (right) in Afghanistan.



5. 1989.



6. 1989: Osama during the war with the USSR.



7. 1989: Osama (right) in Afghanistan.



8. 1989: Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan during the war with the USSR.



9. 1989.



10. Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan in the 80s.



11. Osama bin Laden on the map of Afghanistan in 1998.



12. Osama bin Laden in a meeting with a group of reporters in the mountains of southern Afghanistan's Helmand Province December 24, 1998. Bin Laden was later involved in a series of terrorist attacks, including in an explosion at the World Trade Center in New York in 1993, in the car bomb attack in Riyadh - Saudi Arabia's capital in 1995, the explosion of a truck in the territory of the barracks in Saudi Arabia in 1996, which resulted in the killing of 19 US soldiers in an attack in 1998 on the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.



13. Osama bin Laden during the shooting in 2001.



14. The attention of the world community was confined to the person of Osama bin Laden after the attacks on the World Trade Center 11 sentryabrya and the Pentagon that killed nearly three thousand people. In the picture - picture of the program channel Al-Jazeera, which showed the second anniversary of the September 11 tragedy.



15. Undated frame of the video, which was shown in 2007. In this video, Osama tells about the importance of jihad and glorifying the martyrs who died for the sake of Allah. It is believed that Osama crossed the Pakistani border after the end of 2001, American and British troops launched an offensive in Afghanistan.



16. Osama bin Laden and his son Ali, who at the time was 10 years old.



17. Omar bin Laden, 26-year-old son of the leader of "al-Qaeda" Osama bin Laden, with his wife, Jane Felix-Browne to live on Italian television in 2008.



18. The son of Osama bin Laden, Hamza bin Laden, on the undated video, which was removed during the exercise of al-Qaeda.



19. Abdullah bin Laden, the eldest son of Osama bin Laden, during an interview in Riyadh in 2001.



20. Picture of a possible change to the age of Osama bin Laden, which was published by the US State Department and the FBI in January 2010.



21. Osama bin Laden sitting on the floor with his AK-47 into the shelter in Afghanistan, November 2001.



22. Osama bin Laden was killed May 2, 2011 in a family house in the town of Abbottabad, 50 km from Islamabad in a joint 4-hour operation of the American and Pakistani special forces. What was said on state television chief of the ISI, Ahmed Pasha.