One such victim, forced in recent years into exile and into abandoning a lucrative family business in Syria, took revenge by paying for the whole event.
There were so many things that you felt inclined to go this way, that you were forced to go that way, that at an early age, you made a conscious decision that if it felt good, it was wrong.
In recent years, many of them have been obliged to give up their nomadic lifestyle, but they continue to depend mainly on nature for their food and clothes.
More than 80 of its supporters are reckoned to have been killed, 10,000 of them injured, twice as many homes destroyed, and more than 200,000 people displaced.
But lately Japan has been forced to rethink that, prompted by a declining market for passenger and freight traffic at home, as well as a flurry of overseas opportunities.
Though outsiders are generally barred from the region, casualties have been estimated in the thousands, with tens of thousands of civilians forced to flee their homes.
Born in Saudi Arabia to Osama's first wife, Najwa, as a young boy Omar was forced to move with his family to the Sudan after his father's Saudi citizenship was revoked.
Due to lack of funds for the repainting of the interior of the building and for the furniture needed, the plans for the community center have been postponed indefinitely.