Another aircraft crashed into The Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. A fourth plane was successfully retaken, and crashed in Pennsylvania. The intended target of the final aircraft was believed to be the United States Capitol. In all, the attack killed nearly 3, civilians. Bush formed a coalition that successfully overthrew the Taliban.
Bin Laden went into hiding and, for more than 10 years, he was hunted along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. On May 2, , President Obama announced that bin Laden had been killed in a terrorist compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. His body was taken as evidence of his death, and DNA tests revealed that the body was, in fact, his. We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us!
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She was the daughter of Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first prime minister. We knew all of us were going to face horrible consequences. Our family abroad all came back to Saudi. They tried as much as they could to maintain control over the family. Nearly two decades on, the Bin Ladens can move relatively freely within and outside the kingdom. In , Abdul Wahhab had made a pact with the then ruler Mohammed bin Saud, allowing his family to run affairs of state while hardline clerics defined the national character.
The modern day kingdom, proclaimed in , left both sides — the clerics and the rulers — too powerful to take the other on, locking the state and its citizens into a society defined by arch-conservative views: the strict segregation of non-related men and women; uncompromising gender roles; an intolerance of other faiths; and an unfailing adherence to doctrinal teachings, all rubber-stamped by the House of Saud.
Many believe this alliance directly contributed to the rise of global terrorism. This he sees as essential to the survival of a state where a large, restless and often disaffected young population has, for nearly four decades, had little access to entertainment, a social life or individual freedoms.
There have been changes to the labour markets and a bloated public sector; cinemas have opened, and an anti-corruption drive launched across the private sector and some quarters of government. The government also claims to have stopped all funding to Wahhabi institutions outside the kingdom, which had been supported with missionary zeal for nearly four decades. Contradictions abound: some officials and institutions eschew conservatism, while others wholeheartedly embrace it.
Meanwhile, political freedoms remain off-limits; power has become more centralised and dissent is routinely crushed. An erudite man now in his mids, Turki wears green cufflinks bearing the Saudi flag on the sleeves of his thobe. Before, he was very much an idealistic mujahid. He was not a fighter.
By his own admission, he fainted during a battle, and when he woke up, the Soviet assault on his position had been defeated. As Bin Laden moved from Afghanistan to Sudan, and as his links to Saudi Arabia soured, it was Turki who spoke with him on behalf of the kingdom. Then — and 17 years later — relatives of some of the 2, killed and more than 6, wounded in New York and Washington DC refuse to believe that a country that had exported such an arch-conservative form of the faith could have nothing to do with the consequences.
Certainly, Bin Laden travelled to Afghanistan with the knowledge and backing of the Saudi state, which opposed the Soviet occupation; along with America, the Saudis armed and supported those groups who fought it.
The young mujahid had taken a small part of the family fortune with him, which he used to buy influence. When he returned to Jeddah, emboldened by battle and the Soviet defeat, he was a different man, Turki says. He wanted to evict the communists and South Yemeni Marxists from Yemen. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Politics Covid U.
News World Opinion Business. Share this —. Follow NBC News. Bakr correspondingly removed him as a shareholder in the family firms. The contracts kept coming. Osama certainly had a few sympathizers among his many brothers and sisters, but the majority of them abhorred his violence and resented the damage he caused them. His killing , in Pakistan, by U. Navy SEAL s, in May, , relieved the family of any further association with his millenarian terrorism. The Saudi government temporarily suspended contract awards to the bin Ladens.
The eerie coincidence of the date of the accident is one of a number of odd resonances in the bin Laden family history; another is the recurrence of traumatic plane crashes. In , M. Bakr and two of his brothers, Saad and Saleh, were among the hundreds of wealthy Saudis detained, many of them at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, where they had to answer allegations of financial crimes. According to the Reuters investigation, the authorities ultimately seized deeds to bin Laden family homes, private jets, luxury cars, cash, and jewelry.
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