Is Osama Bin Laden A Monster?

Osama Bin Laden is no doubt one of the worst people to ever step foot on the Earth. He was a terrorist who had a strong dislike for America due our interference in the Middle East, making things worse for his people. One of the more famous attacks he was responsible for was the 9/11 hijacking, this attack in specific killed almost three-thousand people and injured thousands more. He would go on to send a letter to all Americans explaining why he attacked us. Osama Bin Laden is nothing short of being a monster.

Background- Surprisingly, Osama grew up pretty well. He had a wealthy father and was able to get a college education. He grew up very differently than other people in the Middle East. The history channel describes his early childhood

The media portrayed this in their negative political cartoons of Bin Laden. In these drawings they would exaggerate his facial features and mock his death. According to the FBI’s webpage about Bin Laden they describe him as an extremist who can be held responsible for thousands of deaths and injuries. The American people as a whole had a strong dislike for him. After Osama’s death in May of 2011 they flooded the streets with signs and chants celebrating his death. His death was looked at like a national holiday. All of this proves that the media and society did not approve of him or his terrorist

His descent into being a monster started in 1979 when he and Abdullah Azzam went to Peshawar, a city on the border of Pakistan that was being attacked by the Soviet Union, they used their many connections to help finance and give moral support for the mujahideen or the Afghan rebels. While they were there they tried to convince young men to come from all over Middle East to be part of the Afghan jihad. This experience showed Osama and his associates that it was possible to put pan-Islamism into practice. In 1988 Bin Laden started the organization we all know today as Al Qaeda, which translates to ”the base”. Al Qaeda focused more on acts of terrorism instead of military campaigns. In 1989 he went back to Saudi Arabia to raise funds for his mission but the Saudi royal family wanted to keep him quiet; they took his passport and sought help from the United States. After leaving Saudi Arabia Al Qaeda made its first move, exploding a bomb in a hotel in Yemen that was being used by American troops. The frequency of attacks only went up from there. In 1993 they armed and trained Somali rebels who killed 18 American troops. They were supposedly part of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. In 1995 they attempted to kill the Egyptian president Hasni Mubarek. One of their major attacks in 1988 was the planting of bombs in the U.S. embassies in Nairobi and Kenya that killed 213 people