A shot from a TV interview with Osama Bin Laden before the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Dar es Salaam in 1998 that made him a wanted man. In this photo he answers a journalist's questions in an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.
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Undated picture of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan before 1998. Bin Laden was often photographed with an AK-47 rifle. Bin Laden, from a wealthy Saudi family that owned a big construction business, was blamed for two bomb blasts in his home country in 1995-96 that killed 24 U.S. servicemen.
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Undated file picture of Saudi dissident Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden speaks in a meeting in Afghanistan before 1998.
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A video grab dated 19 June 2001 shows Osama bin Laden firing an AK-47 (Kalashnikov) sub-machine-gun in a video tape said to have been prepared and released by bin Laden himself. Copies of the tape, which shows members of bin Laden's organization Al Qaeda, or 'The Base', training at their al-Farouq base in Afghanistan, have been circulated to a few Islamists.
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Osama bin Laden is seen in this undated photo taken from a television image.
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Osama bin Laden is seen in this undated photo taken from a television image.
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Osama bin Laden is shown December 26, 2001, months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. The photo is from a video aired on the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera satellite television station. The video was estimated to have been made some time in December 2001 and bin Laden speaking with a gun at his side.
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This frame grab from the Saudi-owned television network MBC (Middle East Broadcasting Center) shows Osama bin Laden in a videotape broadcast by the Dubai-based MBC 17 April 2002. In the video bin Laden hailed the economic losses suffered by the United States as a result of the September 11 suicide attacks on Washington and New York in the tape which was reportedly recorded in December. "God ordered us to terrorize the infidels, and we terrorized the infidels," said the spokesman of bin Laden's Al Qaeda network, Suleiman Abu Ghaith, in the same tape, claiming the group's responsibility for the September 11 suicide attacks.
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This is a still image taken from a video tape aired on Al Jazeerah station September 10, 2003 that shows Osama bin Laden in an unspecified location. The video tape was aired on the eve of the second anniversary of the September 11 attacks.
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A TV grab taken 07 September 2006 from a video produced by Al Qaeda-linked media group As Sahab and broadcast by the Qatar-based Al Jazeera news network shows Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed time and place. The video reportedly showed leaders and members of the Al Qaeda terror group preparing the attacks against the United States.
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An image grab taken from a video released by Al Qaeda's media wing As Sahab on September 7, 2007, shows Osama bin Laden in his first fresh video in three years. He mocked the "weakness" of the United States. Bin Laden planned the video to mark the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States.
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In this image grab taken 29 November 2007 from Al-Jazeera television shows a still photograph of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden that accompanied a short audio message addressed to Europeans attributed to bin Laden and distributed by the terror network's media wing As-Sahab from an unknown location. Osama bin Laden urged Europeans to end their involvement in Afghanistan and reiterated his responsibility for the September 11 attacks, in an audiotape attributed to him.
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A famous image of Osama bin Laden is shown on television in Afghanistan when news of his death is announced. This television was at an electronics store on May 2, 2011 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Bin Laden was killed near Islamabad, Pakistan, almost a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
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