Married to Khairiah , his death , and had child Hamza or Married to Siham , his death , and had children Kadhija , Khalid , Miriam and Sumaiya Married to an unknown woman , annulled within days. Married to Amal , his death , and had children Safiyah , Aasia , Ibrahim , Zainab and Hussain Religion: Sunni Muslim.
Other Facts. Bin Laden was the 17th of 52 children of construction magnate Muhammad Awad bin Laden, an immigrant from neighboring Yemen , who ran the company Saudi Binladin Group. Muhammad Awad bin Laden became a billionaire by building his company into the largest construction firm in the Saudi kingdom. Bin Laden married for the first time at age 17, to a Syrian cousin, Najwa. Reportedly walked with a cane and suffered from kidney disease.
He remains there for a decade, using construction equipment from his family's business to help the Muslim guerrilla forces build shelters, tunnels and roads through the rugged Afghan mountains, and at times taking part in battle. Bin Laden is reportedly outraged at their presence, and soon begins to target the United States for its presence near the Muslim holy sites of Mecca and Medina. December - US forces land in Somalia , spearheading a UN-authorized humanitarian plan to bring in famine relief supplies.
Part of their challenge is disarming the various warlords who control the country. Prosecutors charge that bin Laden threw himself into the midst of this conflict, sending some of his followers to Somalia to train the warlords to fight the US troops. Six Muslim radicals, who US officials suspect have links to bin Laden, are eventually convicted for the bombing. Although bin Laden is named as a possible unindicted co-conspirator, investigators do not recover conclusive evidence that the al Qaeda leader orchestrated the attack.
Al-Qaida, literally "the database", was originally the computer file of the thousands of mujahideen who were recruited and trained with help from the CIA to defeat the Russians. There's no evidence of this. In fact, there are very few things that bin Laden, Ayman al-Zawahiri and the U.
They all agree that they didn't have a relationship in the s. Most importantly, it showed bin Laden and his associates that it was possible to put pan-Islamism into practice. After the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan in , bin Laden returned to Saudi Arabia to step up fundraising for this new and more complicated mission.
After one more year of preparation, al Qaeda struck for the first time: A bomb exploded in a hotel in Aden, Yemen, that had housed American troops on their way to a peacekeeping mission in Somalia. No Americans died in the blast, but two Austrian tourists did. Emboldened, bin Laden and his associates embraced violent jihad in earnest.
For example, they trained and armed the Somali rebels who killed 18 American servicemen in Mogadishu in National Guard training center in Riyadh that same year; and the truck bomb that destroyed the Khobar Towers, an American military residence in Dharan, in On August 7, , bombs exploded simultaneously at the U. Embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, where people were killed and 4, were injured, and Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, where 11 people were killed and 85 were injured. Al Qaeda took credit for the bombings.
Then, on October 12, , a small boat loaded with explosives plowed into the hull of the U. Cole, an American naval destroyer docked off the coast of Yemen. Bin Laden took credit for that incident as well.
I set up my first camp where these volunteers were trained by Pakistani and American officers. Just as with the Soviets in Afghanistan, bin Laden was against all foreign powers in the Muslim world. Bin Laden then returned to Saudi Arabia to step up fundraising for his new mission. He was welcomed, but the government grew cautious of him as he became more outspoken against authorities. Also in , al-Qaeda struck for the first time, claiming responsibility for a hotel bombing aimed at American troops in Yemen, but no Americans died in the attack.
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