After bin Laden

doi:10.5406/illinois/9780252038860.002.0005

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Introduction After bin Laden

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January 2015

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Osama bin Laden.

It would be difficult to find someone for whom this name does not evoke images, emotions, memories, desires, beliefs. Even years after his death in 2011, Osama bin Laden’s name conjures up a complex array of narratives and representational structures. Depending on one’s location—geographically, politically, religiously—the name invokes stories of evil, bravery, destruction, retribution, deception, truth-telling, cowardice, courage. The name—“Osama bin Laden”—goes far beyond the man—Osama bin Laden—and extends well beyond his death.

In 1998, American Broadcasting Company journalist John Miller wrote that “the American people, by and large, do not know the name Usama [sic] bin Laden, but they soon will.”¹ With tragic prescience, Miller’s prediction chronicled the passage of Osama bin Laden from a relative unknown to one of the world’s most immediately recognized figures.

Before the attacks of September 11, 2001, on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and a third target in Washington, D.C., Osama bin Laden’s name was known in limited circles. Within Saudi Arabia, he was known as one of four children of the pious and hardworking Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, a billionaire construction magnate who earned his wealth by constructing some of Saudi Arabia’s most iconic buildings. In response to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Osama bin Laden went to Pakistan, where he became known in broader circles as a wealthy supporter of the anti-Soviet Muslim forces in Afghanistan, eventually earning a reputation for himself on the battlefield. In 1998, as the founder of Al Qaeda—“the base”—he became known more broadly through the work done by Al Qaeda, most vividly in the attacks in 1998 on U.S. embassies in Tanzania and Nairobi, and then in 2000 on the USS Cole as it sat anchored in a harbor in Yemen, resulting in combined deaths of hundreds of people.

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