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A SYMBOL OF A NATION -
OSAMA BIN LADEN
...What do we really know about this person, about his thoughts, his
behaviour...very little. This man became a symbol, a point of reference for
the Islamic world, not only for the extremists one... For the Hamas
Palestinian group or Pakistan Harakat Unsar or many others, he is the right
person to unify the Islamic world in a holy war against the USA and the
whole Occident, the man that can lead a revolution capable to change the
things radically on our planet. The name of the terrorist sheikh is on
children's lips from Jericho to Kabul and posters with his face are placed
in Iraqian houses...
The father of Osama bin Laden was Mohammed Awad and he came in
Saudi Arabia in 1930,leaving the city Hadramaut from South Yemen. A self-
made man, who was at first stevedore and later, became the owner of the
most important building company in the country. Soon, Mohammed Awad becomes
the Minister. The number of his wives is unknown. He is said to have 57
children. Osama is the 17th child of Mohammed with his 10th wife, an
Arabian woman. Mohammed had a great influence over his son Osama, in spite
of the short period spent together. Mohammed dies when Osama is almost 13
years old...
At 16,Osama is getting married for the first time, with a Syrian
girl who was a relative of his. He studied at Jeddah. At 22 years old he
has a degree in Law.
In 1979,the Soviet troops invade Afghanistan. Osama is at that time
in Karachi, Pakistan. His host, Jammat Islami takes him, to the refugee
camps. Here, he realizes the purpose of his life: defeat the enemy...Osama
can count on 300 million $ from his father and he is trying to get his
brothers on his side too.
But the capital is increasing suddenly due to the donations from the
Muslims who were on his side and wanted to support the holy war in a way or
another. So, Bin Laden has prepared in a couple of years an army capable to
carry a national war and not only.
At first, Osama didn't have his own centres of instruction and not
even command structures. But soon Abdallah Azzam with Bin Laden, who,
besides managing funds for the resistance, builds hospitals and tunnels,
founded MAK (Maktab al-Kidmat-lil-Mudjahedin al-Arab) unit. This MAK was
created against the communist invasion. Bin Laden wanted a quality salt and
numbered all and reformed all the system...so a chaotic group of mercenary
became a compact group, taking the name Al-Qaeda...Bin Laden got guns from
the Americans, who financed secretly the holy war against the Soviet
communism.
But in 1989,the Soviet troops retreated from Afghanistan, because the USA
and URSS agreed to find a solution. In 1992, Iraq invaded Kuwait. Bin Laden
sent a message to the royal family in which he said he was ready to help
against the Iraqis. But Kuwait accepted the American help and the whole
Kuwait became a big American military camp. Bin Laden ran to |