According to Wahidyar, bin Laden is initially a burden because he has no idea about fighting. He keeps promising his mother not to go into battle himself, but then joins the mujahideen commander Sayed Wahidyar, who is only called "Fearless". In Peshawar, Pakistan, just across the Afghan border, he sets up a "service bureau" and uses his connections to organize money for the fight. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1980, like many Arab men, he joined the resistance to liberate the country from the occupying forces. He grew up in a wealthy family, loved westerns and soccer, and avoided fights in the schoolyard. The first episode begins with Osama Bin Laden's schooldays in Saudi Arabia. The early years of Bin Laden, from timid Saudi schoolboy to revered freedom fighter. What drove him to plot his most audacious attack? This compelling history documentary looks at the factors that transformed Bin Laden from a renowned freedom fighter to a devoted enemy of America and the West. The plan to attack the Twin Towers is born. He surrounded himself with increasingly radical extremists, and in the summer of 1996 finally suggested piloting planes to American targets.
Just a few months later, he issued a 30-page fatwa declaring holy war against the Americans who occupied the Arabian Peninsula. Stateless and without much prospect of alternative quarters, he returns to Afghanistan in 1996. Under pressure from Saudi Arabia and the United States, bin Laden finally has to give up his refuge in Sudan. There he reinvents himself as a major agricultural producer of sunflowers and watermelons, while expanding al-Qaeda's work and setting up training camps that attract recruits from across the region. Horrified by what he perceives as an invasion of the holy places by the American army, bin Laden publicly opposes the Saudi royal family declaring Jihad against the US and is eventually forced to flee to Sudan. 18 months later, Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait, prompting worried Saudi authorities to turn to the US for protection. Bin Laden returns to Saudi Arabia from Afghanistan, where he is hailed as a war hero after the Soviets left because he believes he made a significant contribution to the military victory. There he lived unnoticed by the public until he was shot dead during an intelligence operation by US Navy SEALs in 2011.īin Laden's on the run and plotting an audacious plan to strike at the US. In 2005, he and his family moved into a large house in Abbottabad, Pakistan. He never stays in the same place and always stays out of reach of American forces. Bush declared the war on terror, bin Laden withdrew to the Tora Bora mountains. On September 11, when the only TV station authorized by the Taliban broadcast the attack, a revolt broke out among the mujahideen. One of bin Laden's closest associates, Abu Hafs, disagrees with the strategy and leaves al-Qaeda before the operation goes ahead. In 2001, the first plans for an attack on the twin towers were already five years old. That doesn't deter him, however: in 2000, the secret services already suspected that "something was up" when al-Qaeda activists attacked a US warship and killed 17 people.
Just months later, the US embassies in Tanzania and Kenya are bombed, followed by a missile attack on Bin Laden's training camp and placing him on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. In 1998, bin Laden followed with his infamous fatwa, in which he declared the killing of civilians and soldiers of the United States and its allies everywhere as the duty of every Muslim. With the United States as his target, he occasionally gives interviews to US networks from his base in the mountains to take his threats straight into the enemy's living room.
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