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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]
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.
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).
Two SEALs broke through the bedroom door. Bin Laden's wife Amal was on the edge of the bed shouting in Arabic at the SEALs, and Osama bin Laden dived across the bed, shoving Amal at the same time, for an AKS-74U kept by the headboard. The SEALs fired four shots at bin Laden; the first missed, the second grazed Amal in the calf also missing bin ...
President Obama Speaks Out on Osama bin Laden's Death 5 Years Later It's been five years since U.S. Navy Seals killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden at a compound in Pakistan.
The National Security Agency is revealing aspects it never disclosed before about its role in helping the U.S. government track down Osama bin Laden, the al Qaeda founder and terrorist who ...
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.
Vanity Fair reported in 2011 that the image went viral after Bin Laden’s death in Pakistan, alongside a litany of conspiracy theories. The image has been circulating since 2008, according to ...