Digital Learning Commons: Modern Conflicts: Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden

1st General Emir of Al Qaeda

In office: August 11, 1988 to May 2, 2011

Bin Laden's Bookshelf
Declassified reports on the digital and print materials uncovered in Bin Laden's compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
FBI Records: The Vault
Declassified documents on Osama bin Laden from the FBI.
Full text: bin Laden's 'letter to America'
The full text of Osama bin Laden's "letter to the American people" (2002).
The Most Wanted Face in Terrorism
New York Times obituary of Osama bin Laden from May 2011.
Osama bin Laden (1957-2011)
Collected news and commentary from The New York Times.