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Osama bin Laden, also known as Usama bin Ladin, was a Saudi Arabian terrorist and the founder of the Pan-Islamic militant group al-Qaeda. He was born on March 10, 1957. The United Nations Security Council, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union, and several governments have branded the organisation as a terrorist organisation. Al-Qaeda, led by bin Laden, was responsible for the September 11 attacks in the United States, as well as several other mass-casualty strikes across the world. On May 2, 2011, a US military special operations squad assassinated Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad, Pakistan. The operation, codenamed Operation Neptune Spear, was ordered by US President Barack Obama and carried out in a US C
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