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Osama bin Laden
Saudi Arabia
Osama bin Laden co-founded Al-Qaeda in 1988 and claimed responsibility for the 1998 US embassy bombings in East Africa. US Navy SEALs killed him on May 2, 2011, in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Born on March 10, 1957, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to a wealthy construction family, he claimed responsibility through later tapes for directing the September 11, 2001 attacks, though he denied direct involvement.