Terrorist Leader Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden
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After a period of exile in Sudan, bin Laden returned to Afghanistan, where he formed an alliance with the Taliban, helping to establish and run camps to train jihadists. This image is taken from an al-Qaeda training video released in June 2001.

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