Eugen Munder (9 October 1899 – 20 November 1952) was an early member of the Nazi Party and Gauleiter of Gau Württemberg-Hohenzollern. Munder saw action in World War 1 as an artillery crewman and in an infantry battalion.

After the Great War he joined the strongly anti Semitic Deutschvölkischer Schutz- und Trutzbund. He joined the Nazi Party in 1921 and became the Gauleiter of Wurttemburg. He served as editor and publisher of The Southwest German Observer, a local Nazi periodical.

Munder was critical of Hitler’s lifestyle and resigned when the leader supported Mergenthaler’s appointment in his place. He was expelled from the NSDAP in 1928. During World War II he became a platoon commander and rose to become a battalion commander by the end of the war. Munder tried to rejoin the Nazi Party twice but was rejected both times.

Munder was arrested after the war and sentenced to 4 years in prison. He was released in 1948 after suffering seizures. He died of a brain tumor in 1952.

Osama bin Laden (10 March 1957 – 2 May 2011) was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda beginning in 1988. Bin-Laden used al-Qaeda to organize and fund jihadist militants and terrorists worldwide.

The bin Laden family is one of the wealthiest families in Saudi Arabia. They own a construction company called the Saudi bin Laden Group. Osama left Saudi Arabia during the Soviet Afghan War to fight against the Soviet occupation. He used his own money and money raised from wealthy Middle Eastern donors. It is alleged he worked with backing from the CIA who was supporting Afghan resistance as part of Operation Cyclone.

After the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan (1989) bin Laden started al-Qaeda. He commanded a mujahideen force during the 1989–1992 Afghan Civil War. When he returned to Saudi Arabia after the war he publicly promoted anti Western causes and criticized the Saudi royal family. This led to his expulsion from Saudi Arabia. He moved back to Afghanistan and then Sudan. From Sudan he continued to lead al-Qaeda during the Algerian Civil War (1992–2002), and the Bosnian War (1992–1995). Al-Qaeda is believed to be behind the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. He was expelled from Sudan in 1996.

In 1998 al-Qaeda bombed two US embassies in East Africa; one in Kenya and one in Tanzania. That year al-Qaeda began a revolution in Yemen and still occupies territory in the strife torn nation.

Al-Qaeda operatives who had trained as pilots in the US hijacked planes and crashed them into the Twin Towers in New York City on 11 September 2001 killed 2,977 people. This action resulted in the global war on terror, the US invasion of Afghanistan and the US invasion of Iraq under then president George Bush Jr.

Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011 in Abottabad, Pakistan by US Navy Seals.