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Osama bin Laden( Associated Press )
Osama bin Laden, a scion of one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, became the grim apostle of a strain of Islamic radicalism that exalted violence against nonbelievers and the leader of a terrorist network that launched repeated attacks in the West, most spectacularly in the U.S. on Sept. 11, 2001. He was killed in a firefight with U.S. forces in Abbotabad, about 30 miles northeast of the Pakistani capital, Islamabad. Full obituary
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