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Muhammad bin Ladin strategically built strong ties with the Saudi royal family by actively participating in King Abdel Aziz's public meetings. Recognizing the aging king's mobility challenges, Muhammad took the initiative to construct a ramp at the palace in Jeddah , allowing the monarch to easily move between the floors in his car.
Mohammed bin Laden divorced Hamida soon after Osama bin Laden was born. Mohammed recommended Hamida to Mohammed al-Attas, an associate. Al-Attas married Hamida in the late 1950s or early 1960s. [17] The couple had four children, and Bin Laden lived in the new household with three half-brothers and one half-sister. [14]
Mohammad bin Osama bin Laden (born 1983), the son of Osama and Najwa, married the daughter of al-Qaeda leader Mohammed Atef in January 2001, at Kandahar, Afghanistan, with footage broadcast by Al-Jazeera, where three of Osama's step-siblings and Osama's mother were in attendance.
Though there is no definitive account of the number of children born to Mohammed bin Laden, it is generally put at 58. [10] 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.
The SBG was founded in 1931 by Sheikh Muhammad bin Ladin. whose relationship with the country's founder, Abdulaziz Al Saud, led to important government contracts such as refurbishing the mosques at Mecca and Medina. In 1964, Muhammad bin Ladin was commissioned to reclad the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. [4]
In Sudan, bin Laden sought to emulate his father, Muhammad bin Ladin, a prominent businessman and road builder in Saudi Arabia. [5] Turabi, envisioned Sudan as the headquarters for an international Islamic revolution, [6] and so welcomed bin Laden as "the great Islamic investor" [5] as he opened the country to Muslims from around the world ...
Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who later served as a crown prince for King Salman, was a trusted confidant of the U.S. in the battle against al-Qaida militants in the kingdom after the Sept. 11, 2001 ...
Apache war leader Geronimo (1829–1909), the namesake of the code name used in the Bin Laden raid. The code name Geronimo controversy came about after media reports that the U.S. operation to kill Osama bin Laden used the code name "Geronimo" to refer to either the overall operation, to fugitive bin Laden himself or to the act of killing or capturing bin Laden.