Osama Bin Laden
Osama Bin Laden is a Saudi Arabian millionaire and the leader of al Qaeda, a worldwide terrorist group responsible for September 11, 2001 attacks and some other terrorist attacks on Americans in the 1990s. He obtained his wealth by inheriting it from his father, Mohammed Awad bin Laden, who was a successful entrepreneur in the construction industry.
Osama Bin Laden was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1992 after he criticized the Saudi government for permitting the United States to station troops there to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein's invasion.
Bin Laden lived in Sudan for most of the 1990's at the invitation of Hassan al-Turabi, a powerful Sudanese political leader and terrorism supporter. He then returned to Afghanistan, where he had fought against the Soviets in the 1980's. He was protected by the Taliban until the American liberation of Afghanistan following 9/11.
During the 1980s insurgency against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan the CIA helped to train and arm anti-Soviet Islamic militants. Bin Laden had his own source of funding, though, and would have shunned influence by America.[1]
He remains at large to this day.