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Osama Bin Ladin founded the Al Qaeda in 1989. The name means "the base" in the Arabic language and the group was made up of those who were against the soviets in Afghanistan. in 1993 Bin Ladin started a militant training camp in Sudan. He also started looking for nuclear weapons and materials while in Sudan. On February 26,1993 Bin Ladin orchestrated his first bombing in New York. The bombing killed 6 people and injured over 1,000 people. Ramzi Yousef, a friend of Bin Ladin was sentenced to life without parole for the bombing. In November of 1995, Ladin was blamed for a two bomb explosion at a U.S.-Saudi military facility in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. As time went on Ladin and his group were held accountable for many more attacks and deaths. One that changed the world as we knew it forever. On May 2,2011 Osama Bin Ladin was captured and killed.