Osama bin Laden

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Klickitat Canyon Hike (OregonHikers.org) The Klickitat River is the longest undammed river in the state of Washington, but that doesn’t mean it hasn’t been noticeably altered by the hand of man. A logging railroad was built along the west bank of the river at the beginning of the 20th century; in the 1950s, a lumber company converted the tracks into a two-lane paved private haul road. The southern section of the haul road ran right next to Highway 142, but the northern sections ran up the remote Klickitat Canyon…

Good evening. Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who’s responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children. Barack Obama, Remarks on death of Osama bin Laden (May 2011)

Osama bin Laden (Wikipedia) Osama bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was a Saudi Arabian-born Islamist dissident and militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, he participated in the Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union and supported the activities of the Bosnian mujahideen during the Yugoslav Wars. After issuing his declaration of war against the Americans in 1996, Bin Laden began advocating attacks targeting U.S. assets in several countries, and supervised al-Qaeda’s execution of the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001.