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Al Qaeda Osama Bin Laden Taliban Terrorist Bombings Ayman Al-Zawahiri Islamic TerrorRecent Event Contributions
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Attempted assassination of Hasan al-Alfi
Two members of Ayman al-Zawahiri's al-Jihad exploded a bomb-laden motorcycle next to the car of Egyptian Interior Minister Hasan al-Alfi's car. The... Read more
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Osama Bin Laden Declares War Against The United States
With this declaration of war, Osama bin Laden had appointed himself spokesman for Muslims disaffected with the west across the globe. Following as... Read more
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Abdullah Azzam is Assassinated
On this day in 1989, Azzam and his two sons, Ibrahim and Mohammed were killed by a twenty kilogram roadside bomb in Peshawar, Pakistan. Allegations... Read more
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Formation of al-Qaeda
With the Afghan jihad winding down, Osama bin Laden gathered his most loyal followers together to discuss their future. They were determined to... Read more
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Gold Mihor Hotel Bombing
This bombing would widely come to be considered bin Laden's first. Two people were killed and seven injured at the Gold Mihor and Movenpick hotels... Read more
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The Other World Trade Center Bombing
Abdul Basit Mahmoud Abdul Karim, or Ramzi Yousef, as he was more commonly known, detonated a massive bomb in the World Trade Center underground... Read more
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King Fahd Revokes Osama Bin Laden's Citizenship
Under pressure from the Algerian, Yemeni and Egyptian governments, King Fahd sent an emissary to Sudan to revoke bin Laden's passport. Bin Laden's... Read more
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Mullah Mohammed Omar Declares Himself Commander of the Faithful
"The Blind Sheikh", as he was called, was a veteran of the Afghan War, blinded by shrapnel at either the Battle of Arghandab or at the Siege of... Read more
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Luxor Massacre
Six gunmen shot the guard at Deir el-Bahari, a mortuary temple on the west bank of the Nile and proceeded to gun down every tourist in sight.... Read more
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US Embassy Bombings
Al-Qaeda launches a a two-pronged bombing attack on United States embassies in Nairobi,Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.The bombing in Kenya left... Read more