Bin Laden was born on March 10, 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
As a child, Bin Laden grew up being influenced by Muslim Brotherhood, which was founded in Egypt in the 1920’s. In school he was convinced by his teachers that it was good to join terrorist groups, because he would be rewarded with the gift of going to heaven if he used their methods. As a youth, he would meet with his Muslim Brothers and they would teach him about the Islamic religion and how it was a “political system achieved through violence”-Amy Zalman, Ph.D. Sources say, the Islamic religion doesn’t have any belief or rule about killing mass amounts of human beings to gain the reward of going to Heaven. Although Bin Laden was being taught that violence was the right way to solve problems, he went way out of his mind by attacking the U.S. Bin Laden and his Muslim Brotherhood went against the Islamic religious beliefs during the attack on the World Trade Center, heading towards the White House, and the Pentagon. Bin Laden is now the leader of Al Qaeda which is a section of the Taliban, the biggest terrorist group containing Muslims. “Al Qaeda was established by Bin Laden around1988, it helped recruit, finance, transport and train thousands of fighters from dozens of countries to be part of an Afghan resistance to defeat the Soviet Union.” “It has cells worldwide and is reinforced by its ties to Sunni extremist networks.” “Al Qaeda’s mission is to establish a pan-Islamic Caliphate throughout the world by working with allied Islamic extremist groups to overthrow regimes it deems "non-Islamic" and expelling Westerners and non-Muslims from Muslim countries.”-Global Security. Bin Laden’s Muslim Brotherhood believed that when they got into what they call “Heaven” they will receive 500 virgins. This is because they think they are doing a favor for Allah by killing a mass amount of people.
Ever since the “9/11” attack on the World Trade Center the United States military has been trying to capture Bin Laden. We haven’t been able to find him because he has been hiding in remote mountainous areas near the border of Afghanistan. It isn’t easy capturing a man like Bin Laden because the area he is hiding is about 10,000 square miles of peaks and valleys against the Hindu Kush Mountains. There are so many holes and he could be hiding in one of them but we have no idea which one and that is why it is very hard to capture the famous Bin Laden.
If the United States caught Bin Laden he would most likely be tried in a U.S.Miltitary Court. There would be extreme pressure from the United States public to Bin Laden to trial quickly, however, politics and world opinion would likely cause delays and drag the trial out for a long period of time.
In the end, Bin Laden would most likely be found guilty of killing hundreds of innocent people and would be sentenced to death.
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