Osama bin Laden goes to Afghanistan
| Event Details | |||
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 | Primary Organization | Al-Qaeda | |
 | Other Organization | Pakistan Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence2 | |
| Means | Plane | |
| Location | Khartoum, Sudan2 | |
| Location | Jalalabad, Afghanistan2 | |
| Time | May 19, 19962 | |
| Participants | Osama bin Laden2, Mohammed Atef1 | |
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| Narrative and Notes | |||
| Reliable | Bin Laden, under pressure from the government of Sudan, flew in a leased aircraft from Khartoum to Jalalabad with family members and aides. The plane landed to refuel in the United Arab Emirates. Other militants arrived on later flights, as al-Qaeda settled into its new home in Afghanistan.2 | |
| Possible | The move was apparently facilitated by elements of Pakistan's intelligence service.2 | |
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| 1United States vs. Osama bin Laden et. al. indictment, Nov. 4, 1998. | |||
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