Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko Osama bin Laden te tangata i tino whakaahuatia, mai i tana tamarikitanga i Saudi Arabia i roto i te whanau whai rawa, tana whai wāhi ki te jihad ki te Soviet Union i Afghanistan, tana tūranga hei kaiwhakawhiwhi moni mo nga roopu kaiwhakatuma, tona noho ki Sudan, tona hokinga ki Afghanistan, me ana taunekeneke ki nga Taliban. Ko ngā whakaeke pōraru o te Embassy o Te Hononga o Amerika i Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, me Nairobi, Kenya i te tau 1998, e whakaahuatia ana, pērā anō hoki ki ngā whakaeke pōraru o te Embassy o Amerika i Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, me Nairobi, Kenya.
te whakaekenga o te USS "Cole" i te tau 2000.