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1957 Born
1996 Osama bin Laden writes "The Declaration of Jihad on the Americans Occupying the Country of the Two Sacred Places," his first open call for war.
1998 Osama bin Laden publishes a ''fatwa'', declaring ''jihad'' against all Jew
s and Crusaders.
1998 1998 United States embassy bombings: The bombings of the United States
embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
, and Nairobi, Kenya
kill 224 people and injure over 4,500; they are linked to Osama Bin Laden.
1998 A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan
declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya
and Tanzania
.
2002 The UN Security Council unanimously establishes an arms embargo on and freezes the assets of Osama bin Laden, Al-Qaida, and the Taliban.
2004 A videotape of Osama Bin Laden speaking airs on Arabic TV, in which he threatens terrorist attacks on the United States
, and taunts the president
, George W. Bush
, over the September 11 Terrorist attacks.
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