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Mohammed bin Laden was married 22 times, although to no more than four women at a time per Sharia. Osama was the only son of Mohammed bin Laden and his tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas, née Alia Ghanem, [11] who was born in Syria. Although there has been widespread speculation that his maternal family is Alawite, they have claimed to be Sunni Muslims.
Najwa Ghanem (Arabic: نجوى غانم; born c. 1960) [1] is a Syrian woman who was the first wife and first cousin of Osama bin Laden, being the daughter of his mother's brother. She is also known as Umm Abdallah (mother of Abdallah). [2]
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.
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).
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]
Although Osama bin Laden's youngest son was not believed to be planning attacks, the U.S. ultimately carried out an airstrike that killed him in 2018. Trump pushed CIA to find, kill Osama bin ...