本·拉登生平簡介

1957: Saudi-born multimillionaire

本拉登于1957年出生在沙特阿拉伯吉達(dá)，他是當(dāng)?shù)匾粋€建筑大亨的第17個孩子。
Bin Laden was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1957. He is the 17th child of a Saudi construction tycoon.
1988: Leader of “Al-Qaida ” military base camp

1988年，本拉登成為基地組織的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)者。
Bin Laden worked for his father´s company before joining the US-backed Jihad, or "Holy War," against Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1979. There he founded the "al-Qaeda" military base camp and training center in 1988.
1994：Al-Qaida network became a nucleus campaign

1994年，基地組織在拉登的領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下，成為恐怖主義運動的核心。
Bin Laden was stripped of Saudi citizenship for allegedly channeling funds for terrorism activities in 1994. Since then, he has been living in Afghanistan. Pulling together several Islamic extremist organizations from different countries and regions, he turned the al-Qaida network into a nucleus in the campaign of driving Americans and Israelis out of Arab territories.

2001: “Prime suspect” behind 9.11

2001年，成為9.11事件的主要嫌疑人。
The United States stormed bin Laden´s al-Qaida network and its Taliban host in Afghanistan after locking bin Laden as the prime suspect for the Sept. 11 attacks in 2001.

 

Bin Laden was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, in 1957. He is the 17th child of a Saudi construction tycoon.

Bin Laden worked for his father's company before joining the US-backed Jihad, or "Holy War," against Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in 1979. There he founded the "al-Qaeda" military base camp and training center in 1988.

He moved to Saudi Arabia after Soviet troops pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989 and left in the following year for Yemen in disappointment as Saudi Arabia allowed US troops in to attack Iraq in the Gulf War.

He went to Sudan after the end of the Gulf War.

But bin Laden was stripped of Saudi citizenship for allegedly channeling funds for terrorism activities in 1994.

Since then, he has been living in Afghanistan. Pulling together several Islamic extremist organizations from different countries and regions, he turned the

al-Qaida network into a nucleus in the campaign of driving Americans and Israelis out of Arab territories.

Bin Laden was blamed by the United States for bomb attacks on US barracks in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia in 1996, on American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998 and on a US warship in Yemen in 2000. He is also considered the mastermind behind the September 11th attacks in the US in 2001.

He was on the US most wanted list of terrorists in 1999 with a reward of 5-million dollars.

Bin Laden denied involvement in any of the attacks.