Osama Bin Laden: A Terrorist's Life

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A young Osama bin Laden at age 15 with 22 of his siblings in Sweden in 1971.

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Osama bin Laden in a cave in the Jalalabad region of Afghanistan in 1988.

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Osama bin Laden walks with Afghanis in the Jalalabad region in 1989.

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This handout recently received from former CNN reporter Peter Arnett shows him posing with Osama bin Laden in March 1997 after a television interview in the Tora Bora mountains of Afghanistan.

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Osama bin Laden in traditional Saudi dress in this 1988 photo taken in Jeddah.

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Rescue workers remove the bodies of people who died when a bomb exploded near the U.S. Embassy in Nairobi in August 1998, an attack credited to Al-Qaeda. More than 200 were killed.

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U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright (center) walks past the damaged U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on August 1998, after a bomb attack credited to Al-Qaeda. At least 11 people were killed.

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The "USS Cole" is pictured after a bomb attack during a refueling operation in the Yemeni port of Aden in this October 12, 2000, photo. Seventeen U.S. service members were killed in the attack.

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Osama bin Laden (right) sits with his son Mohammed (center) and one of his top aides, Mohammed Atef, during Mohammed's wedding to Atef's daughter in Kandahar in January 2001.

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The World Trade Center towers burn behind the Brooklyn Bridge on September 11, 2001.

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In this photo, dated November 2001, Osama bin Laden sits with his deputy, Ayman al-Zawahri, at his hideout at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan.

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Afghan fighters outside one of the entrances to caves where Osama bin Laden was reportedly hiding in the mountains of Tora Bora in December 2001.

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Afghan fighters shelling Al-Qaeda positions in Tora Bora where Osama bin Laden was reportedly hiding in December 2001.