Was Osama bin Laden a tyrant?

Answer 1

He controlled and influenced a lot of young deprived people around the globe, and used the anger rightfully gathered from Western interference in the Middle East and elsewhere in the world as a catalyst to expand his own power and commit horrendous acts, including 9/11 and the US Embassy bombings in East Africa (which killed hundreds of innocent Kenyans and Tanzanians), and assist in genocide against the Persian minority in Afghanistan, as well as suppress, enslave and murder women, gays, Sub-Saharan (black) Africans (many Arabs instill view them as little better than slaves), and any non-Muslim or Muslim for that matter that did not fit his ideal model of the militant Salafist Jihadist.

Furthermore, his ultimate aim was to either head or help govern a caliphate that would stretch from Morocco across to India, to Bosnia in the north and down to Kenya in the south, that would then attempt to annex the rest of the world, while 2 billion people would be forced to live under conditions perhaps more zealous than those of the period of the Taliban's bloody rule of Afghanistan.

If none of this makes Bin Laden a tyrant or at the very least a tyrant-in-waiting, then Stalin and Hitler must be the most misunderstood men on Earth.