Why Did Osama Bin Laden Hate The United States?

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Osama Bin Laden is the name that strikes fear, anger or sadness into every American’s heart but not every American truly knows why this man came to power, or why he had such a strong hatred for Americans or even how he was taken down. The United States did not truly know the name, Osama Bin Laden until the September 11, 2001 attacks and now this tragic moment in American history that will forever leave in our minds. There have been many movies that have been made to portray this moment and how Osama Bin Laden was killed and one of those movies is Zero Dark Thirty. This movie is how thousands of people view this event which lead to the capture of a man that brought terror to the American people. The date Zero Dark Thirty is an example of how …show more content…

Is wonder by many people about Osama Bin Laden. Osama Bin Muhammad Bin Awad bin Laden born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on March 10, 1957, was the “17th of more than 50 children of Muhammad,” (“Bin Laden, Osama” 2) who was a Yemeni laborer and later became Saudi Arabia’s wealthiest construction contractor. His father died in a plane crash in 1968 and it is estimate that he inherited a fortune of about $20 million and 300 million. The Soviet Union moved into Afghanistan on December 1979 and “bin Laden joined the Mujahedin, the Afghan resistance movement” (“Bin Laden, Osama” 3). Surprisingly, the United States and the bin Laden fought on the same side against the Soviet Union by supplying them with supplies, such as weapons and money. “In the mid-1980s he confounded Makhtab al Khidamat (MAK),” (“Bin Laden, Osama” 2) which later becomes the model for al-Qaeda. The Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan in 1989 and so, bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia and “took in active role in opposing the monarchy” (“Bin Laden, Osama” 4). He hated the fact that the kingdom joined the Persian Gulf War against Iraq thus allowing U.S troops on the Arabian Peninsula. After the war, he fled to Sudan, where he established many terrorist camps. This point in history is what fueled Bin Laden to hate the United States.
The movie Zero Dark Thirty came out on December 19, 2012 and since then has won many awards. Lots of people love this movie and this movie is how people see or imagine how Osama Bin Laden was killed, but what they do not know is that Hollywood changed many facts that truly happened in history to appeal to the audience and get better

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