Osama is most widely recognized for the September 11 attacks on the United States when 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four commercial passenger jet airliners. The hijackers intentionally crashed two of the airliners into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, killing everyone on board and many others working in the buildings.
Osama Bin Laden is 54 years old when he was slain on May 1, 2011 (May 2 Manila Time). U.S. officials announced the news and that the United States was in possession of his corpse.
US President Barack Obama is about to make the dramatic speech shortly in a late-night appearance at the White House.
Side Note: Osama’s father, Muhammed bin Laden, was killed in 1967 in an airplane crash in Saudi Arabia when his American pilot misjudged a landing. His eldest half-brother and head of the bin Laden family, Salem bin Laden, was killed in 1988 when he accidentally flew a plane into powerlines near San Antonio, Texas, USA.
