Osama bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia in 1957 and studied economics in university. [1] He founded the terrorist organization Al Qaeda in 1989 to wage global jihad against the United States. [2] Al Qaeda has been involved in terrorist attacks against U.S. targets since 1992, including the September 11th attacks. [3] Bin Laden's whereabouts remain unknown but he is believed to be hiding somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan, with a $25 million bounty on his head offered by the FBI.