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In pictures: Bin Laden’s life

Pictorial gallery on al-Qaeda’s top leader, the alleged mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks on the US.

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Osama bin Laden gained international prominence following the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
Published On 2 May 2011
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He was born in Saudi Arabia in 1957 to a wealthy family. But he lived in relative poverty later in life as he fashioned himself
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He accused the US of waging war against Muslims, and allegedly masterminded a series of attacks against the US interests
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His family, which became rich from the Saudi construction boom, disowned him, and he was stripped of his Saudi citizenship
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A key influence on Osama was Abdullah Azzam, a Palestinian professor and member of the Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood
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He fought along with Afghhan mujahidins against the Russians with the backing from the US
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Tall, gaunt and bearded, bin Laden was unhurt by a US bomb late in 2001 in the Tora Bora mountains in eastern Afghanistan
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In 2007, the US senate doubled the reward for the death or capture of the al-Qaeda leader to $50m
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Bin Laden was killed at a mansion in Abbottabad, which is just 200 metres from the Pakistan Military Academy
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US official quoted by AP news agency said bin Laden(***)s body had been buried at sea, although this has not been confirmed