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Osama bin Laden killed in CIA operation Al-Qaeda leader’s death comes nearly a decade after attacks on New York and the Pentagon.
Osama bin Laden, pictured in the Jalalabad region of Afghanistan in 1988, formed al-Qaeda in the late 1980s while helping finance and train Afghan fighters against the Soviet invasion.
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A Pakistani soldier stands near a compound where it is believed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had lived in Abbottabad, Pakistan. <br>AP
Bin Laden, center, walks with Afghanis in the Jalalabad area in 1989. An engineer by training, he used inherited wealth to bankroll Taliban forces fighting the Soviet Union's occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s. Many Taliban fighters were also trained by the CIA.
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Bin Laden's recruits hold passages from the Koran alongside guns in this image from a training video in Afghanistan. His terrorist organization, al-Qaeda, or "the Base," is thought to operate in more than 40 countries throughout the world.
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Employees evacuate the World Trade Center after terrorists bombed the building on Feb. 26, 1993. Ramzi Yousef, a nephew of al-Qaeda leader Khalid Sheik Mohammed, was convicted for masterminding the attack, which killed six people and injured more than 1,000.
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Rescuers assist victims of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Shortly after the attack, al-Qaeda strategist Khalid Sheik Mohammed and Ramzi Yousef began talking about plots to hijack U.S. airliners and crash them into buildings.
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Bin Laden holds a news conference in Afghanistan in May 1998. In the years before the Sept. 11 attacks, the CIA carried out a secret but unsuccessful manhunt for bin Laden that was mired in bitter policy disputes between the Clinton White House and the CIA.
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A Kenyan soldier stands guard as a body is removed from the building next to the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi on Aug. 11, 1998. Bin Laden's group was blamed for the Aug. 7, 1998, attacks on the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, which killed more than 213 people.
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Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald announces the federal indictment of Osama bin Laden for the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania at a news conference in New York City on Nov. 4, 1998.
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Osama bin Laden is flanked by aides and armed bodyguards in Afghanistan in 1998. After the bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, President Clinton launched "Operation Infinite Reach," targeting suspected terrorist targets in Sudan and Afghanistan.
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A man shows support for bin Laden at a rally in Lahore, Pakistan, on July 25, 1999. Since Sept. 11, 2001, the United States has pressured Pakistan to cooperate in its war on terror, while some Islamic groups have protested the government's U.S. alliance.
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This port-side view of the USS Cole shows the damage sustained after a terrorist bomb exploded during a refueling operation in the port of Aden, in Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000. The bombing is attributed to bin Laden supporters in the country.
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President Bill Clinton attends a memorial service at Norfolk Naval Base in Virginia for victims of the Oct. 12, 2000, attack on the USS Cole in Yemen. A Kuwaiti newspaper later obtained a videotape in which bin Laden boasted of the suicide attack.
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An image broadcast on Qatar's al-Jazeera television is said to show the wedding of Mohammed bin Laden, center, son of Osama, right. The Jan. 9, 2001, ceremony took place in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
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Hijacked United Airlines Flight 175 from Boston crashes into the south tower of the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. The U.S. blamed bin Laden for the attacks that killed about 3,000 people in the twin towers and the Pentagon.
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Helen Madigan Campbell, a resident of the East Village in New York City, cries at a vigil at a makeshift memorial for those missing in the World Trade Center attacks. The Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were the worst on American soil.
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Firefighters work around the World Trade Center after both towers collapsed on Sept. 11, 2001. In a Nov. 9, 2001, video released by the Department of Defense, bin Laden said the attacks exceeded even his "optimistic" calculations.
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President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, left, examine damage at the Pentagon in Washington on Sept. 12, 2001. After the attacks, Bush warned that the United States was prepared to retaliate against terrorists "and those who harbor them."
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A portrait of bin Laden burns in New Delhi on Sept. 21, 2001, after terrorism protesters set his effigy aflame. A report released in 2004 showed that not all those working with bin Laden have accorded him undivided devotion.
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U.S. Marines prepare to fly to a new position near Kandahar, Afghanistan, on Dec. 10, 2001. By the end of 2001, President Bush predicted U.S. troops would remain in the country for "quite a long period of time" and said bin Laden should be captured "dead or alive."
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An Afghan Northern Alliance commander opens fire at Taliban forces in Chaghatay, Afghanistan, on Nov. 7, 2001. The United States launched Operation Enduring Freedom after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to hunt down members of the al-Qaeda network.
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Northern Alliance soldiers keep vigil from their mountain positions on Sept. 26, 2001, near the strategic Salang Pass, the main mountain highway that connects the capital, Kabul, with the northern city of Mazar-e Sharif.
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A Palestinian woman protests the U.S. attacks on Afghanistan in the West Bank town of Ramallah on Oct. 12, 2001. Though al-Qaeda's roots are in Afghanistan, bin Laden also supported the Palestinian cause against Israel.
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U.S. soldiers seeking to root out al-Qaeda and Taliban forces raid a dwelling near the Afghan villages of Sherkhankheyl, Marzak and Bobelkiel in March 2002.
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Villagers from Hosa-khel display parts of an American bomb Dec. 14, 2001, near the Tora Bora area of Afghanistan. Bin Laden was believed to be in Tora Bora, near the Pakistan border, before troops captured the al-Qaeda and Taliban stronghold.
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Bin Laden and top al-Qaeda deputy Ayman al-Zawahiri, left, appear in an undated video broadcast by al-Jazeera in April 2002.
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Iraqi Cpl. Ahmed Waleed Muhid displays a bin Laden target sheet at Camp Fallujah, west of Baghdad, on July 4, 2006. When al-Qaeda leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was killed in June 2006, bin Laden praised him as a "brave knight" for fueling Iraq's insurgency.
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