American Manhunt: Osama bin Laden
originally aired on Netflix
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War of the 1980s, and supported the Bosnian War. He declared war on the U.S. in 1996 and supervised numerous terrorist attacks in various countries, including the September 11 attacks in 2001. Bin Laden was considered a war hero by many within the Islamist movement due to his role in opposing the Soviet and American interventions in Afghanistan. In the West and elsewhere, he is widely seen as a global symbol of terrorism.