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| 1001 | Laden, Osama bin |  |
| 23rd Dec Arrested on a flight from Paris to Miami after trying to blow up the plane with explosives hidden in his shoes, during his trial in the USARichard Reid pledges allegiance to Osama Bin Laden |
| 1957 | Laden, Osama bin | |
| Birth of Osama bin Laden |
| 1988 | Laden, Osama bin | |
| As Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan Osama Bin Laden and other Arab fighters in the country form alQaeda which in Arabic means quotthe basequot |
| 1991 | Laden, Osama bin | |
| A bomb explodes at the World Trade Center |
| Sudan becomes alQaeda's base for business operations and preparations for jihad, from here a number of attacks on Western targets are alleged to have been organised or supported |
| 26th Feb New York Arabia A bomb explodes at the World Trade Center |
| 26th Feb New York Arabia Al Qaeda's involvement is unclear but some analysts believe after the attack the group seeks out the plotter Ramzi Yousef and offers him money, Yousef later serves a life sentence for the attack |
| 1991 | Yousef, Ramzi | |
| 26th Feb New York Arabia Al Qaeda's involvement is unclear but some analysts believe after the attack the group seeks out the plotter Ramzi Yousef and offers him money, Yousef later serves a life sentence for the attack |
| 1993 | Laden, Osama bin | |
| 4th Oct Members of a Somali militia shoot down two Black Hawk helicopters, the USAbelieves that Al Qaeda fighters helped train those responsible for the incident in which 18 American servicemen were killed |
| 1996 | Laden, Osama bin | |
| Osama bin Laden had lived in Afghanistan along with other members of al-Qaeda, operating terrorist training camps in a loose alliance with the Taliban |
| May Bin Laden leaves Sudan and returns to Afghanistan |
| 25th June Dhahran Arabia A bomb rips through a USAmilitary housing complex near Dhahran SaudiArabia killing 19 Americans |
| 1998 | Laden, Osama bin | |
| 22nd Feb Bin Laden issues fatwa calling for attacks on USAcitizens |
| 7th Aug USAembassies in Kenya and Tanzania are bombed |
| 20th Aug The USAretaliates against the bombings of USAembassies in Kenya and Tanzania with air strikes against alleged training camps in Sudan and Afghanistan |
| 2000 | Laden, Osama bin | |
| 12th Oct Two suicide attackers ram a boat carrying explosives into the USS Cole in Aden port killing 17 American sailors |
| 2001 | Laden, Osama bin | |
| Letters containing anthrax are sent to the USASenate |
| 11th Sep New York Arabia Al Qaeda hijack aeroplanes & destroy the Twin Towers, nearly 3,000 are killed |
| 12th Dec A French citizen of Moroccan origin is charged with conspiring with Osama Bin Laden and other suspects to kill thousands of Americans in the 11 September attacks, Zacarias Moussaoui is detained in the USAon immigration charges |
| 2002 | Laden, Osama bin | |
| 22nd Mar Abu Zubaydah believed to have served as Osama Bin Laden's field commander and chief recruiter is captured during a raid on a house in Pakistan |
| 11th April Djerba Arabia A fuel tanker is blown up outside a synagogue on the Tunisian island of Djerba killing 19 people including 14 German tourists, an al Qaeda spokesman later says the organisation is behind the suicide attack |
| 11th April Kuta Arabia Two bombs rip through a nightclub area in the Balinese town of Kuta killing 202 people most of them foreign tourists, Indonesian authorities believe the attacksare carried out by the South East Asian network Jemaah Islamiah, linked to Al Qaeda |
| 2002 | Padilla, Jose |  |
| 8th May Chicago USAauthorities announce the arrest of an American citizen they accuse of planning to build and detonate a bomb containing radioactive material, Jose Padilla, is detained Chicago airport after arriving from Pakistan |
| 2002 | Zubaydah, Abu |  |
| 22nd Mar Abu Zubaydah believed to have served as Osama Bin Laden's field commander and chief recruiter is captured during a raid on a house in Pakistan |
| 2004 | Laden, Osama bin | |
| New York Arabia Says the attacks were carried out because "we are a free people who do not accept injustice, and we want to regain the freedom of our nation" |
| New York Arabia Shortly before the USApresidential election, in a taped statement, bin Laden publicly acknowledged al-Qaeda's involvement in the attacks on the US, and admitted his direct link to the attacks |
| Six suspected Al Qaeda militants are charged in connection with the attack by a Yemeni court |
| 21st May New York Arabia In an audiotape posted on a website that the USAclaims is "frequently used by al-Qaeda", bin Laden says he had personally directed the 19 hijackers |
| 22nd July New York Arabia The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the USAis formed by the USAgovernment, called the 9/11 Commission, concludes the attacks were planned & carried out by al-Qaeda |
