Information about the prime suspect. From CNN: America Under Attack.

Collection of articles. USA.

Information on attacks bin Laden has been suspected or proved to be involved in.

By Ardeshir Cowasjee. "Now, before our spooks disrupt my communications systems, I tell them that all this information has been culled from the Internet, available with one click to anyone with access." Pakistan.

Video clips and accompanying text from investigative documentaries on the suspected terrorist mastermind.

News stories, including a 1999 interview, plus video clips. USA.

Biography of bin Laden, as well as information on terroristic acts he has been speculated to be involved in.

How Osama Bin Laden operates and what it will take to defeat him

Opinion piece by Michael Moran of MSNBC.

Article examining his CIA ties and what this has led to. Includes interactives: slide show and his al-Qaida network.

Interview with Mujahid Usamah Bin Ladin. Includes brief biography and statement of philosophical outlook. Australia.

An article on Osama Bin Ladin by Peter Bergen and Frank Smyth in the New Republic, reprinted after the events of 11 September 2001.

Discusses the lack of hard evidence linking bin Laden with the many terrorist acts attributed to him.

Collection of articles, photo gallery and background information. USA.

Information about bin Laden and al-Qaida which emerged during the 2001 trial in New York for the bombing of two US embassies in east Africa in 1998.

Invetigative report from the Center for Public Integrity.

An article by Camelia Fard and James Ridgeway about Laili Helms, a Taliban advocate, and recent attempts to turn bin Laden over to the US.

A US-based expert on non-conventional terror believes terrorist Ossame Bin Laden has acquired portable nuclear devices. Clipped from The Jerusalem Report.

Michel Chossudovsky. "The history of Osama Bin Laden and the links of the Islamic 'Jihad' to the formulation of US foreign policy during the Cold War and its aftermath."

ABC News interviews Osama bin Laden.

Includes statement by Taleban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar that bin Laden has been neutralized by restricting his communications.

Stories, history, the Taliban, FBI poster and extensive links.

By Robert Fisk. "The Saudi businessman who recruited mujahedin now uses them for large-scale building projects in Sudan. Robert Fisk met him in Almatig." Reprinted by the Saudi Arabia Mail Archive.

CBC News reports on Osama Bin Laden.

"Osama bin Laden's historic hour-long interview with CNN was played Wednesday for the jury deciding whether four men are part of an alleged decade-long conspiracy led by the Saudi expatriate and aimed at killing Americans and destroying U.S. property abroad."

How the U.S. attacks on Osama bin Laden have transformed him into a local hero.

Background information on bin Laden and his crusade to rid the Arab world of corrupt Western influences.

Brief statement from Osama bin Laden's family on the attacks.

Interview in which bin Laden denies direct responsibility for the 1998 bombings of two US embassies in Africa, but reiterates his call for all Muslims to protect themselves against Western infidels.

Lisa Beyer. In-depth history of Osama bin-Laden. USA.

Ongoing collection of NYT articles, plus multimedia. Registration required.

Article by Dina el-Beblawi in the Middle East Times.

"U.S. intelligence agencies are checking the activities of Osama Bin Laden, a member of a wealthy Saudi family who was stripped of his Saudi citizenship in 1994 and who finances a host of hard-line groups from Egypt to Algeria. Bin Laden has lived in Sudan for the past five years."

The Associated Press and Knight-Ridder Newspapers. To fully understand how Osama bin Laden became a world-famous suspected terrorism mastermind and an America-hater, it is necessary to see how he became an Islamic "holy warrior."

Translation of the videotaped statement.

Jason Burke in Peshawar. About Osama Bin Laden, his son Muhammed, al-Zawahiri and other fighters. UK.

Julian Borger in Washington and Ewen MacAskill. "Circumstantial evidence points to Bin Laden." UK.

Marcella Bombardieri. Interview with Osama's US-based brother Abdullah in the only interview given by a member of the Bin Laden family since September 11. UK.

Ewen MacAskill, Richard Norton-Taylor and Julian Borger in Washington. "The enormity of the task facing the US and its allies...has been revealed in a report showing that his reach extends to 34 countries, including Britain."

The LA Times reports that Clinton considered staging a commando raid against Osama bin Laden in 1998.

By Michael Dobbs. "Saudi fugitive spouts militant rhetoric, but ties to violence remain mysterious."

Background information about the Al Qaeda group and its leader. Timeline of presumed terrorist attacks.

Rahimullah Yusufzai. The thoughts of a Pakistani journalist who has interviewed both Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar. UK.

Jason Burke. "America's number one terrorist suspect has built up a formidable network dedicated to the Islamic fundamentalist cause."

Ewen MacAskill, Richard Norton-Taylor, David Pallister, Brian Whitaker and Rory McCarthy. "Intelligence sources say only one man was capable of mounting attack."

Luke Harding in Kabul. "Half of my country has been destroyed by two decades of war. If the remaining half is also destroyed in trying to protect Mr Bin Laden, I'm willing for this sacrifice," Mullah Omar said.

Analysis from the New Yorker Magazine.

Slate's article on bin Laden's motives.

The CIA has been authorized since 1998 to use covert means to disrupt terrorist operations planned abroad by Osama bin Laden. USA.

Bernard Lewis analyses in Foreign Affairs the "Declaration of the World Islamic Front for Jihad against the Jews and the Crusaders" by Usama bin Ladin.

By Johanna McGeary. "One man sold out Osama bin Laden, and now reveals his chilling insights." Canada.