History of the United States II / Unit 17 USH2 2403 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda
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The idea
Osama bin Laden, a wealthy Saudi, led al-Qaeda from Afghanistan, where the radical Islamic Taliban government sheltered it, the Yawp records.
In practice
His grievances, in Digital History's list: American troops in Saudi Arabia, support for Israel, and the Iraq embargo.
Where people slip
Digital History notes that the United States had helped him and fellow fighters expel the Soviets from Afghanistan in the nineteen eighties.
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