Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Akanga ari mugari weSaudi Arabia kusvikira muna 1994 uye nhengo yemhuri yakapfuma yaBin Laden. Baba vaBin Laden vaiva Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, muSaudi mamiriyoni kubva kuHadhramaut, Yemen, uye muvambi wekambani yekuvaka, Saudi Binladin Group. Amai vake, Alia Ghanem, vaibva kumhuri yepakati yevanhuwo zvavo muLatakia, Syria. Akaberekerwa muSaudi Arabia uye akadzidza kuyunivhesiti munyika yacho kusvikira muna 1979, paakabatana nemauto eMujahedin muPakistan achirwisana neSoviet Union muAfghanistan. Akabatsira kutsigira maMujahideen nokuendesa zvombo, mari, uye varwi kubva kunyika dzechiArabhu kupinda muAfghanistan, uye akawana mukurumbira pakati pevaArabhu vakawanda. Muna 1988, akaumba Al-Qaeda. Akadzingwa muSaudi Arabia muna 1992, uye akatamisa hwaro hwake kuenda kuSudan, kudzamara kumanikidzwa kweUS kwakamumanikidza kuti abve muSudan muna 1996. Pashure pokugadza hwaro hutsva muAfghanistan, akazivisa hondo kuUnited States, achitanga nhevedzano yebhomba nokurwisa kwakabatana. Bin Laden akanga ari paAmerican Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) mazita eVanegumi Vanonyanya Kutsvaga Vapoteri uye Vanonyanya Kutsvaga Magandanga nokuda kwekubatanidzwa kwake mu 1998 US embassy bombings
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