<human>:  Can you tell me how Osama Bin Laden became a popular rebel leader in the Middle East?
<bot>: Well, Bin Laden was born in 1957 to a Saudi construction contractor, in Saudi Arabia. And he went to university in Saudi Arabia and eventually Egypt, where he graduated as a civil engineer. He’d also be a major player in the radical group in Afghanistan in the 1970s, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, so the US supported the anti-Soviet rebellion with weapons and logistics. He ran a training camp in Afghanistan, which is where he later had his face burned in an accident