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Osama married Najwa in 1974 when she was fourteen in Latakia. [3] She travelled with him to Sudan and Afghanistan. According to Abu Jandal, she left Afghanistan before the September 11 attacks and did not return. [2] According to Najwa and her son Omar bin Laden, she left Afghanistan on September 9, 2001. [4]
Bin Laden is reported to have married at least five women, [6] although he later divorced the first two. Three of Osama bin Laden's wives were university lecturers, highly educated, from distinguished families. According to Wisal al Turabi, bin Laden married them because they were "spinsters", who "were going to go without marrying in this ...
Najwa Ghanem (born 1959), became the first wife of Osama in 1974. A first cousin, she was his mother's niece. She co-authored Growing Up bin Laden with her son Omar. Shaikha bint Laden (born 1960), half-sister of Osama, married Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. He was the founder of Benevolence International Foundation, in the Philippines in 1988.
The family of Osama Bin Laden, the infamous terrorist behind the September 11, 2001 attacks, finally spoke out about their family's dark legacy.
Abdallah bin Osama bin Mohammed bin 'Awad bin Laden (in Arabic: عبدالله بن أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن; born c. 1976) is the son of Osama bin Laden and Osama's first wife, a Syrian woman named Najwa. He is not to be confused with Osama bin Laden's half-brother Abdullah bin Laden (born 1966) or the elder Sheikh ...
Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World is a 2009 book written by Osama bin Laden's first wife Najwa bin Laden and fourth son Omar Bin Laden. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Reviews
Osama bin Laden was her only child with Mohammad bin Laden, and they divorced soon after his birth in 1957; Osama was somewhere between the 17th and the 22nd of the 24 sons which Mohammad would sire. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] She often spent summers at her brother Naji's home in Latakia and Osama went with her until he was 17. [ 4 ]
Osama bin Laden was born on 10 March 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. [9] [10] His father was Muhammad bin Ladin, [11] [12] a billionaire construction magnate with close ties to the Saudi royal family, [13] and his mother was Mohammed bin Laden's tenth wife, Syrian Hamida al-Attas (then called Alia Ghanem).