Bin Laden goes to Pakistan, and then…
1991 CE
Bin Laden goes to Pakistan, and then Afghanistan, to help sort out the differences among the Afghani actions.
As a mediator, he apparently works at cross-purposes to the Saudi intelligence services, which are allegedly attempting to increase the divisions between the various factions.
Seeing his mission failing and fearing assassination from Pakistani operatives hired, he believes, by Saudi Arabia, bin Laden, who can neither return to Saudi Arabia nor find asylum in Egypt or Yemen, flees Afghanistan for asylum in the Sudan.