The Saudi Government's Exile Of Osama Bin Laden Explained

Adam Fitzgerald on Odysee

After the defeat of the Soviet Union by the Arab Afghan mujahedeen in 1989, Osama Bin Laden returned back to Riyadh a hero to the militant Islamic world. With the Iraq invasion of Kuwait, Bin Laden offered to halt the incom9ng Baathist army but was rejected by the Saudi Kingdom. This lead to Bin Laden being under house arrest and given an ultimatum which led to him exiled in Sudan.