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| 1971: Osama bin Laden (second from right) on a visit to Falun, Sweden. That year 23 members of the wealthy Bin Laden family visited Falun while one of the elder brothers conducted business with Volvo. Osama is remembered from the occasion as a quiet and reserved boy who at 16 didn't really stand out from the crowd |
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| 1985: Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan |
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| 1988: Osama bin Laden in a cave in the Jalalabad region of Afghanistan |
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| 1989: Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan during the war with Russia |
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| 1989: Osama Bin Laden walks with Afghans in the Jalalabad area |
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| 1998: Osama bin Laden sits behind a map of Afghanistan in an undisclosed part of the country |
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| 1998: Osama bin Laden at a meeting with reporters in the mountains of Helmand province, southern Afghanistan. By this time he was a suspect in the bombing of two US embassies in Africa |
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| 1998: Osama bin Laden at a press conference with Ayman al-Zawahiri in Khost, Afghanistan |
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| 1999: Poster of Osama bin Laden sold in Rawalpindi, Pakistan |
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| 1999: An Osama bin Laden wanted poster at a US justice department press conference in New York |
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| 2000: Osama bin Laden in Afghanistan |
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| January 2001: Osama bin Laden at the wedding of his son in the southern Afghan city of Kandahar |
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| 2001: Osama bin Laden, at an undisclosed location, having been named the prime suspect in the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Behind him is top lieutenant Ayman al-Zawahiri. Al-Jazeera said the scene was believed to record a celebration of the union of Bin Laden's al-Qaida network and Zawahiri's Egyptian Jihad group |
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| 2001: Osama bin Laden records a video at an undisclosed location |
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| 2002: A boy holds an Osama bin Laden poster at an Islamist political rally in Quetta, Afghanistan |
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| 2003: Osama bin Laden in a video aired by al-Jazeera on the second anniversary of 9/11 |
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| 2005: A Pakistani boy holds an Osama bin Laden poster at a rally to show solidarity with Kashmiris fighting against Indian troops |
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| 2006: A video produced by al-Qaida linked media group as-Sahab and broadcast on al-Jazeera shows Osama bin Laden at an undisclosed time and place in Afghanistan |
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| 7 September 2007: A new video claimed to show Osama bin Laden |
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| 2 May 2011: The Abbottabad compound where Osama bin Laden has been killed by American forces. |
source http://www.guardian.co.uk
