lives. These men both had a large impact on the world in such dissimilar ways. Mahatma Gandhi
was a pacifist and a supporter of peace and compassion; Osama Bin Laden was an extreme
militant and an advocate for war and intolerance.
Gandhi was the primary leader in India’s independence movement. He was a small man
that had a great heart, and when people saw this they felt the need to follow his aspirations.
Gandhi led thousands of people to their freedom in the earlier part of the 20th century. Gandhi
directed the famous Salt March which took place from March to April 1930 in India and was an
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He convinced these followers other
countries’ were trying to destroy the Islamic faith and were torturing Muslims for no reason. He
told them these countries’ were trying to destroy Muslim homeland. With all this information
hatred Osama filled his followers with he convinced them it was time to end these tragedies. In
1998 Osama bombed the U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. Then in 2001 Osama planned
the largest terrorist attack on the United Sates, known as “9/11”. He had two planes crash in to
our world trade centers and one crash in to the pentagon. One plane was taken over by our brave
patriots and crashed in a reclaimed strip mine in Stonycreek Township, near Indian Lake and
Shanksville in Somerset County, Pennsylvania, about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh and 130
miles northwest of Washington, D.C.. Osama had been on the U.S. ‘Most Wanted’ list of more
than a decade. On May 2, 2011, American soldiers killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at his
compound near Islamabad, Pakistan.
Both men were very influential to many people in many different ways. Both men had a
great impact on their people and people of different cultures. Osama was a man of terror