Office building of the bin Laden family

The dustbin Laden family (Arabic: بن لادن), also spelled dustbin Ladin, is a rather wealthy family intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family. The family was thrown into media spotlight through the activities of one of its members, Osama bin Laden. The financial interests of the bin Laden family are represented by the Saudi Binladin Group, a global construction and equity management conglomerate grossing 5 billion U.S. dollars annually, and one of the largest construction firms in the Islamic world, with offices in London and Geneva.^[1] The family traces its origins to a poor, uneducated Yemenite, Sheikh Mohammed bin Laden (died 1967). Mohammed bin Laden was a native of the Shafiite (Sunni) Hadhramaut coast in southern Yemen and emigrated to Saudi Arabia prior to World War I. He set up a construction company and came to Abdul Aziz ibn Saud's attention through construction projects, later being awarded contracts for major renovations at Mecca, where he made his initial fortune from exclusive rights to all mosque and other religious building construction not only in Saudi Arabia, but as far as Ibn Saud's influence reached. Until his death, Mohammed bin Laden had exclusive control over restorations at the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem. Soon the bin Laden corporate network extended far beyond construction sites. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2948x1956, 2061 KB) Summary Bin Ladin building. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (2948x1956, 2061 KB) Summary Bin Ladin building. ... Arabic redirects here. ... The House of Saud ( transliteration: ) is the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ... Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: ‎; born March 10, 1957[1]), most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi Arabian militant Islamist and is widely believed to be one of the founders of the organization called al-Qaeda. ... Saudi Binladin group offices, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. ... Investment management is the professional management of various securities (shares, bonds etc) assets (e. ... USD redirects here. ... The Islamic world is the world-wide community of those who identify with Islam, known as Muslims, and who number approximately one-and-a-half billion people. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... Geneva (pronunciation //; French: Genève //, German:   //, Italian: Ginevra //, Romansh: Genevra) is the second most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich), and is the most populous city of Romandy (the French-speaking part of Switzerland). ... Yemenite may refer to: Yemenite, a person from Yemen or of Yemenite ethnicity Yemenite (dance), a dance step originating from Yemen This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ... For other uses, see Sheikh (disambiguation). ... Shaikh Mohammed Awad bin Laden (محمد بن لادن), also known as Mohammed bin Laden (1908—September 3, 1967), a Yemeni immigrant to Saudi Arabia was a wealthy investor, businessman and patriarch of the bin Laden family. ... Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... The Shafi`i madhab (Arabic: شافعي) is one of the four schools of fiqh, or religious law, within Sunni Islam. ... Sunni Islam (Arabic سنّة) is the largest denomination of Islam. ... Region close to Sayun in the Hadhramaut Valley An ancient sculpture of a griffon from the royal palace at shabwa, the capital city of Hadhramaut Hadhramaut, Hadhramout or Hadramawt (Arabic: ‎ []) is a historical region of the south Arabian Peninsula along the Gulf of Aden in the Arabian Sea, extending eastwards... “The Great War ” redirects here. ... Saud bin Abdul Aziz (January 12, 1902 - February 23, 1969) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to November 2, 1964. ... In large construction projects, such as skyscrapers, cranes are essential. ... This article is about the city in Saudi Arabia. ... The Masjid al-Haram in Mecca as it exists today A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ... `Abd al-`AzÄ«z as-Sa`Å«d ( 1880 - November 9, 1953) (Arabic:عبدالعزيز آل سعود) was the first monarch of Saudi Arabia. ... Shaikh Mohammed Awad bin Laden (محمد بن لادن), also known as Mohammed bin Laden (1908—September 3, 1967), a Yemeni immigrant to Saudi Arabia was a wealthy investor, businessman and patriarch of the bin Laden family. ... For other uses, see Al-aqsa (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Jerusalem (disambiguation). ...

Mohammed's special intimacy with the monarchy was inherited by the younger bin Laden generation. Mohammed's sons attended Victoria College, Alexandria Egypt. Their schoolmates included King Hussein of Jordan, Zaid Al Rifai, the Kashoggi brothers (whose father was one of the king's physicians), Kamal Adham (who ran the General Intelligence Directorate under King Faisal), present-day contractors Mohammed Al Attas, Fahd Shobokshi and Ghassan Sakr and actor Omar Sharif. Victoria College, Alexandria, was founded in 1902 under the impetus of the recently ennobled Evelyn Baring, 1st Earl of Cromer of the Barings Bank, that was heavily invested in Egyptian stability. ... Hussein I bin Talal, King of Jordan (Arabic: ‎ ; November 14, 1935 – February 7, 1999). ... Adnan Khashoggi (or Kashoggi) (Arabic:عدنان خاشقجي)(born 25 July 1935) is a billionaire Saudi arms-dealer and businessman, and was involved in the Iran-Contra Affair. ... The Al Mukhabarat Al Aamah (Arabic: المخابرات العامة), or the General Intelligence Directorate, is the pre-eminent intelligence agency of the government of Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ... Faisal ibn Abdelaziz Al Saud, King of Saudi Arabia (1324-1395 AH) (1903 or 1906—March 25, 1975) (Arabic: فيصل بن عبدالعزيز آل سعود) was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 to 1975. ... For the Pakistani actor of the same name, see Umer Sharif. ...

When Mohammed bin Laden died in 1967, his son Salem bin Laden took over the family enterprises, until his own accidental death in 1988. Salem was one of at least 54 children by various wives. Year 1967 (MCMLXVII) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the 1967 Gregorian calendar. ... Salem M. bin Laden (1946 - May 29, 1988) was a Saudi Arabian investor. ... Year 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday (link displays 1988 Gregorian calendar). ...

The Mecca event

The bin Laden connection with the House of Saud was severely strained in 1979, when Islamist insurgents briefly took control of the mosque at Mecca. Trucks owned by the family had been used to smuggle arms into the tightly controlled city. Mahrous bin Laden had been the enabler, working with the Islamist insurgency. His connection was through the son of a Sultan of Yemen who had been radicalized by Syrian members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Mahrous was actually arrested for a time, but is now managing the Medina branch of the bin Laden enterprises. The House of Saud ( transliteration: ) is the royal family of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. ... Also: 1979 by Smashing Pumpkins. ... Islamism is a political ideology derived from the conservative religious views of Muslim fundamentalism. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... This article is about the city in Saudi Arabia. ... Islamism is a political ideology derived from the conservative religious views of Muslim fundamentalism. ... The Muslim Brothers (Arabic: الإخوان المسلمون al-ikhwān al-muslimūn, full title The Society of the Muslim Brothers, often simply الإخوان al-ikhwān, the Brotherhood or MB) is a world-wide Sunni Islamist movement and the worlds largest, most influential Islamist group[1]. The MB is the largest political... This article is about the city in Saudi Arabia. ...

Bin Ladens and King Fahd

The two closest friends of King Fahd were Prince Mohammed ben Abdullah (son of Abdul Aziz ibn Saud's youngest brother) who died in the early 1980s and Salem bin Laden who died in 1988, when a plane that he was flying flew into powerlines in San Antonio, Texas. PBS "Frontline". King Fahd bin Abdul Aziz Al Saud (Arabic: ‎, 1921 – August 1, 2005) was the king and prime minister of Saudi Arabia and leader of the House of Saud. ... Mohammed bin Abdullah -was a Somali mullah, religious agitator and dervish of the Habr Suleiman tribe in what was then British Somaliland. ... Salem M. bin Laden (1946 - May 29, 1988) was a Saudi Arabian investor. ...

Alleged business connections of the Bush and bin Laden families

Michael Moore's highly critical movie Fahrenheit 9/11 alleges strong business connections between the Bush family and the bin Laden family. Moore based most of his claims on Craig Unger's House of Bush, House of Saud which relates how Salem bin Laden invested through James R. Bath, the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, some money in Arbusto Energy, a company run by George W. Bush [1]. Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American political-activist, a film director, author, social commentator, and political humorist. ... Fahrenheit 9/11 is a controversial, award-winning documentary film by American left-wing filmmaker Michael Moore which presents a critical look at the presidency of George W. Bush, the War on Terrorism, and its coverage in the American news media. ... The Bush family: President George W. Bush, First Lady Laura Bush, former First Lady Barbara Bush, and former President George H. W. Bush sit surrounded by family in the Red Room (White House) on January 6, 2005, together to celebrate the senior couples 60th wedding anniversary. ... Craig Unger is an American journalist and writer. ... House of Bush, House of Saud cover House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the Worlds Two Most Powerful Dynasties is a book by Craig Unger that explores the relationship between the Saudi Royal Family and the Bush extended political family. ... Salem M. bin Laden (1946 - May 29, 1988) was a Saudi Arabian investor. ... James Reynolds Bath was a former director of Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), and part owner of Arbusto Energy with George W. Bush, with whom Bath served as a member of the Texas Air National Guard. ... Arbusto Energy (sometimes referred to as Arbusto Oil), was a petroleum and energy company formed in Midland, Texas, in 1977, by George Walker Bush and a group of investors which included Dorothy Bush, Lewis Lehrman, William Henry Draper III, Bill Gammell, and James R. Bath. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the forty-third and current President of the United States of America, originally inaugurated on January 20, 2001. ...

Several members of the Bush family are investors in the Carlyle Group, a defense contractor and investment fund with numerous interests in the Mideast, run by former Bush administration Secretary of Defense Frank Carlucci.^[2] The media noted that former President George H. W. Bush attended an investment meeting at the Washington, D.C. Ritz-Carlton hotel on September 10, 2001 and in particular a meeting with Shafiq bin Laden, representing joint interests of the Saudi Binladin Group and Carlyle.^[3] (Bush did not attend the morning of September 11, although it has been alleged that the meeting took place during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. Former Secretary of State James Baker was present, along with Carlucci.^[3]) The Carlyle and Binladin groups mutually severed their business relationship on October 26, 2001.^[3] The Carlyle Group is a Washington, D.C. based global private equity investment firm with more than $71. ... A defense contractor (sometimes called a military contractor) is a business organization or individual that provides products or services to a defense department of a government. ... Institutional fund management is fund management conducted by large financial firms such as banks, insurance companies and major investment organisations (e. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... The United States Secretary of Defense is the head of the United States Department of Defense, concerned with the armed services and The Secretary is a member of the Presidents Cabinet. ... Frank Carlucci Frank Charles Carlucci III (born October 18, 1930) was a government official in the United States, associated with the Republican Party. ... George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) was the 41st President of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. ... For other uses, see Washington, D.C. (disambiguation). ... Ritz-Carlton is a brand of luxury hotel and resort with 63 properties that are located in major cities and exclusive resort destinations of 21 countries worldwide. ... is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... Saudi Binladin group offices, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. ... Seal of the United States Department of State. ... James Addison Baker III (born April 28, 1930) served as the Chief of Staff in President Ronald Reagans first administration, Secretary of the Treasury from 1985 to 1988 in the second Reagan administration, and Secretary of State in the administration of President George H. W. Bush. ... is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ...

Family members

American and European intelligence officials estimate that all the relatives of the family may number as much as 600, and that several members of the bin Laden family sympathize with Osama.^{[citation needed]} The Saudi government revoked his passport and the bin Laden family officially disowned Osama in 1994.^[4] The Saudi government also stripped Osama bin Laden of his citizenship,^[4] for publicly speaking out against them, after they permitted U.S. troops to be based in Saudi Arabia in preparation for the 1991 Gulf War.^[specify] Year 1994 (MCMXCIV) The year 1994 was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by the United Nations. ... “Citizen” redirects here. ... For other uses, see Iraq war (disambiguation). ...

The groupings of the family, based on the nationalities of the wives, include the most prominent "Saudi group", a "Syrian group", a "Lebanese group," and an "Egyptian group". The Egyptian group employs 40,000 people as that country's largest private foreign investor. Osama bin Laden was born the only son of Muhammed bin Laden's tenth wife,^[5] Hamida al-Attas, who was of Syria origin,^[6] making Osama a member of the Syrian group. Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: ‎; born March 10, 1957[1]), most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi Arabian militant Islamist and is widely believed to be one of the founders of the organization called al-Qaeda. ... Hamida al-Attas (born 1934) is the mother of Osama Bin Laden. ...

First generation

• Muhammed Awad bin Laden (born c. 1906 in Yemen), the family patriarch; before World War I, Muhammed, originally poor and uneducated, emigrated from Hadhramaut, on the south coast of Yemen, to the Red Sea port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he began to work as a porter. Starting his own business in 1930, Muhammed built his fortune as a building contractor for the Saudi royal family during the 1950s. Married 22 times, with about 55 children; Osama bin Laden was born as the 17th. He died in a 1967 plane crash in Saudi Arabia, and control passed to his son, Salem.

• Alia Ghanem (born in Syria) Muhammed's 10th wife, and mother of Osama; divorced soon after Osama was born, and remarried Osama's stepfather c. 1958.^[7]

• Muhammad al-Attas Osama's stepfather, in whose household Osama was raised at Jeddah; worked at the bin Laden company. The couple had four children, Osama's three half-brothers and one half-sister.

• Abdullah bin Laden, uncle of OBL; headed SBG, died in Medina, March 21, 2002, at age 75.^[8]

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Second generation

• Salem bin Laden (born 1946) attended Millfield, the English boarding school; took over the family empire in 1967; an amateur rock guitarist in the 1970s; married an English art student, Caroline Carey, whose half brother Ambrose Douglas is the son of the Marquess of Queensberry in Scotland; during the 1980s he aided the Reagan Administration, which secretly arranged for an estimated thirty-four million dollars to be funnelled through Saudi Arabia to the Contras, in Nicaragua, according to French intelligence; was killed outside San Antonio, Texas in 1988, when an experimental ultralight plane that he was flying got tangled in power lines.

• Tarek bin Laden, b. 1947; once called "the personification of the dichotomy (conservativism and change) of Saudi Arabia."^[9] In the 1990s, TBL was general supervisor of the International Islamic Relief Organization.

• Bakr bin Laden, succeeded Salem as chairman of the Saudi Binladin Group; major power broker in Jeddah.

• Hassan bin Laden, senior vice president of the SBG.

• Yehia bin Laden, also active in the SBG; in 2001 owned 16 percent of Cambridge, MA-based Hybridon, Inc.^[10]

• Mahrous bin Laden was implicated in the Grand Mosque Seizure, carried out by dissidents against the Saudi ruling family at the Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, on November 20, 1979. This event shook the Muslim world with the ensuing violence and killing of hundreds at the holiest of Islamic sites. Trucks owned by the family were reported to have been used to smuggle arms into the tightly controlled city. The bin Laden connection was through the son of a Sultan of Yemen who had been radicalized by Syrian members of the Muslim Brotherhood. Mahrous was actually arrested for a time, but in the Saudi government response, he was not beheaded along with 63 others who were, their public executions broadcast on live Saudi television. Later exonerated, he joined the family business, and became manager of the Medina branch of the bin Laden enterprises, and a member of the board.

• Osama bin Laden (born 1957 in Saudi Arabia) founder of al-Qaeda and one of the FBI Most Wanted Terrorists.

• Najwa Ghanem (born c. 1957 in Syria) Osama's first wife, married 1974; a first cousin, and his mother's niece.

• (shaikha) al-Attas (born c. 1960), half sister of Osama, daughter of Alia Ghanem and Muhammad al-Attas, married Mohammed Jamal Khalifa. He was the founder of Benevolence International Foundation, in the Philippines in 1988. During this period, Khalifa is believed to have received large donations of cash from outside the country, some of which, intelligence officials suspect, may have been funnelled to him by Al Qaeda. He also ran the International Relations and Information Centre, by which embezzled money was funneled to Ramzi Yousef. In 1993, his business cards were found in the Jersey City, New Jersey apartment that Yousef stayed in while he was involved with the World Trade Center bombing plot. Khalifa was first arrested on December 14, 1994 in Mountain View, California, placed in solitary confinement and the contents of his luggage were logged and edited. In 1995, Khalifa was arrested in San Francisco on charges of violating United States immigration laws. He was detained while the Justice Department tried but failed to gather enough information to charge him in connection with suspected terrorist activities. Eventually, he was deported on May 5, 1995 to Jordan, which had an outstanding warrant for him on charges stemming from the bombing of movie theatres in Amman in 1994, for which he had been under a possible death sentence, convicted in absentia. His convicton was later overturned, in a new trial during which he was acquitted. In 1996, Khalifa returned to Saudi Arabia, where he was again arrested after 9/11, but later released. He still lives in Saudi Arabia, where after 9/11 he publicly condemned Osama Bin Laden, and may now be retired from any related association to al-Qaeda.

• Yeslam bin Ladin studied in the 1970s at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles; settled in Switzerland; became a Swiss citizen c. 2001; Geneva-based head of the family's European holding company, the Saudi Investment Company; was scrutinized by Swiss and American investigators because of a financial stake he has in a Swiss aviation firm; he has claimed to not have had contact with Osama since c. 1981^[11]

• Abdullah bin Laden (born c. 1965); graduate of Harvard Law School; lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 9/11, the only relative to remain in the United States, staying in Boston for almost a month.

• Shafig bin Laden (Arabic: شفيق بن لادن), half-brother of Osama's, was a guest of honour at the Carlyle Group's Washington conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on September 11, 2001, and among the 13 members of the bin Ladin family to leave the United States on September 19, 2001 abort N521DB.

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Third generation

• Wafah Dufour (born Wafah bin Ladin on May 23, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American model and aspiring singer-songwriter. She spent the early part of her life in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dufour, her little sisters Najia (1978) and Noor (1987), her mother (1954) and her father (born on October 19, 1950) then moved to Geneva, Switzerland. In 1988, her parents separated. She earned a law diploma at Geneva Law School (Switzerland) and later a master's degree from Columbia Law School in the United States. She lived in Manhattan until around the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks, but was staying in Geneva for summer holiday at the time of the attacks. She currently lives in New York City and is working on her first album.

• Abdallah Osama bin Laden (born c. 1976), son of Osama and Najwa; reportedly organized the U.S. branch of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth in Falls Church, Virginia during the 1990s with his brother Omar^[12], and Jamal al Barzinji. Abdallah runs his own firm, called Fame Advertising, in Jeddah;^[5] he is closely watched by the Saudi government, which has restricted his travel from the kingdom since 1996; reportedly, he has never disowned his father.^[1]

• Omar Osama bin Laden; (born c 1981) son of Osama and Najwa; Omar accompanied Osama on his exile to Sudan from 1991-1996, and then to Afghanistan after that. Reportedly organized the U.S. branch of the World Congress of Muslim Youth in Falls Church, Virginia during the 1990s with his brother Abdallah. He returned to Saudi Arabia after an apparent falling-out with his father over the September 11 attacks, which he saw as a strategic blunder that led to the fall of the Taliban. Omar runs his own company in Jeddah is a contractor and also deals in large consignments of scrap metals, and has recently married Zaina Mohamed Al-Sabah aka Jane Felix-Browne, a parish councillor from Moulton, near Northwich in Cheshire UK. Their mutual love of horses brought them together. She has declined to take her new husband's surname. She is his first wife and 24 years older than him, and he is her sixth husband. He had one son, outside of marriage.^[13] The couple announced their divorce in September 2007; she cited threats to their "lives and liberty".^[14] after 2 weeks zaina and omar decided not to part and would not let threats destroy there marriage, they are now together, they have just finished filming for a bbc documentary, omar and zaina will live in europe and work in politics in hope of bringing peace

• Saad bin Laden; son of Osama and Najwa; Saad accompanied Osama on his exile to Sudan from 1991-1996, and then to Afghanistan after that. He is believed to be married to a woman from Yemen. Saad reportedly arrived in Iran in 2002, from Afghanistan; He was believed to have been heavily responsible for the bombing of a Tunisian synagogue on April 11, 2002. He was then implicated in the May 12, 2003 suicide bombing in Riyadh, and the Morocco bombing four days later.

• Muhammad bin Laden (born c. 1983), son of Osama and Najwa, married the daughter of the late 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.

• Hamza bin Laden (born c. 1991), son of Osama. Senior member of al-Qaeda in Afghanistan.

• Abdul Aziz bin Laden, manages SBG's Egyptian operations; ranked Number 2 in the 2006 UAE National Superstock Bike Championship.^[15]

Wafah Dufour (born Wafah bin Ladin on May 23, 1975 in Los Angeles, California) is an American model and aspiring singer-songwriter. ... Abdallah bin Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden[1] (born c. ... The World Assembly of Muslim Youth is an Islamic organization whose stated purpose is to establish a platform where Muslim youth can get together in an Islamic environment. ... Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City Founded 1875 Government  - Mayor Robin Gardner Area  - City  2. ... Dr. Jamal al Barzinji is a noted American businessman and political operative, most recently associated with the International Institute of Islamic Thought, the World Assembly of Muslim Youth and the SAAR Foundation. ... Coordinates: Country United States State Virginia County Independent City Founded 1875 Government  - Mayor Robin Gardner Area  - City  2. ... The World Trade Center on fire The September 11, 2001 attacks were a series of coordinated terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11, 2001. ... The Taliban (Pashto: , also anglicized as Taleban) are a Sunni Muslim Pashtun movement [2] that ruled most of Afghanistan from 1996 until 2001, when their leaders were removed from power by a cooperative military effort between the Northern Alliance, United States, and the United Kingdom. ... A son of Osama bin Laden, Saad bin Laden continued in his fathers footsteps, occupying a position of prominence within Al Qaeda. ... is the 101st day of the year (102nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also see: 2002 (number). ... is the 132nd day of the year (133rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Riyadh (Arabic: ar-Riyāḍ) is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia. ... Mohammed Atef Group photo of Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden & Abu Hafs Prosecution Trial Exhibit from the trial of Zacarias Moussaoui Mohammed Atef (Arabic: محمد عاطف ) (also transliterated as Muhammad Atef, Muhammed Atef, Muhammad ‘Āṭif and several other ways) (1944-2001) was the alleged military chief of the international terrorist organization... For the hamlet in Saskatchewan, Canada; see Kandahar, Saskatchewan. ... This article is about the TV network and channel. ... Hamza bin Laden (born c. ...

Family tree

1. Mohammed bin Laden (1908-1967)

2. Salem bin Laden (1946-1988)

+ m. Caroline Carey

2. Tarek bin Laden (b. 1946)

2. Bakr bin Laden

2. Hassan bin Laden

2. Yehia bin Laden

2. Mahrous bin Laden

2. Abdullah bin Laden (b. 1965)

2. Shafig bin Laden

+ m10. Hamida al-Attas Salem M. bin Laden (1946 - May 29, 1988) was a Saudi Arabian investor. ... Tarek M. bin Laden,[1] (b. ... Bakr bin Laden is the chairman of the Jeddah-based Saudi Binladin Group, and a half-brother of FBI Most Wanted Terrorist Osama Bin Laden. ... An investor, Shafig bin Laden (Arabic: ) is a half-brother to Osama bin Laden, and was a guest of honour at the Carlyle Groups Washington conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on September 11, 2001. ...

2. Osama bin Laden (b. 1957)

+ m. Najwa Ghanem (b. 1957)

3. Abdallah Osama bin Laden (b. 1976)

3. Saad bin Laden (b. 1979)

3. Omar Ossama bin Laden (b. 1981)

3. Muhammad bin Laden (b. 1983)

+ m. Rabab Haguigui Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden (Arabic: ‎; born March 10, 1957[1]), most often mentioned as Osama bin Laden or Usama bin Laden, is a Saudi Arabian militant Islamist and is widely believed to be one of the founders of the organization called al-Qaeda. ... Saad bin Laden is one of at least 11 sons from Osamas first wife and also first cousin, Najwa Ghanem from Syria. ... Abdallah bin Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden[1] (born c. ... A son of Osama bin Laden, Saad bin Laden continued in his fathers footsteps, occupying a position of prominence within Al Qaeda. ...

2. Yeslam bin Ladin (b. 1950)

+ m. Carmen Dufour (b. 1954)

3. Wafah Dufour (b. 1975)

3. Najia bin Ladin (b. 1978)

3. Noor bin Ladin (b. 1987)

2. Ibrahim bin Ladin

2. Khalil bin Ladin

2. Fawzia bin Ladin

1. Abdullah bin Laden Yeslam bin Ladin (exact name in Saudi Arabia Binladin and in US Ben Laden) (October 19, 1950 : 56 years old) (Arabic: ‎) is the half-brother of Al-Qaeda terrorist group leader Osama bin Laden. ...

The Bin Laden flights

At least 13 relatives of Osama bin Laden, accompanied by bodyguards and associates, were allowed to leave the United States on a chartered flight eight days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a passenger manifest released on July 21, 2004.^[16] The passenger list was made public by Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), who obtained the manifest from officials at Boston's Logan International Airport.

Among the passengers with the bin Laden surname were Omar Awad bin Laden, who had lived with OBL nephew Abdallah Osama bin Laden who was involved in forming the U.S. branch of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth in Alexandria, and Shafig bin Laden, a half brother of OBL who was reportedly attending the annual investor conference of the Carlyle Group Abdallah bin Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden[1] (born c. ... An investor, Shafig bin Laden (Arabic: ) is a half-brother to Osama bin Laden, and was a guest of honour at the Carlyle Groups Washington conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on September 11, 2001. ... The Carlyle Group is a Washington, D.C. based global private equity investment firm with more than $71. ...

Also on board were Akberali Moawalla, an official with the investment company run by Yeslam bin Laden, another of Osama bin Laden's half brothers. Records show that a passenger, Kholoud Kurdi, lived in Northern Virginia with a bin Laden relative. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... Yeslam bin Ladin (exact names Binladin in Saudi Arabia, and Ben Laden in the U.S.) (b. ...

The bin Laden flight has received fresh publicity because it was a topic in Michael Moore's anti-Bush documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11."

In mid-July 2007 Judicial Watch released new documents from the FBI related to the "expeditious departure" of Saudi nationals, including members of the bin Laden family, from the United States following the 9/11 attacks. According to one of the formerly confidential FBI documents, dated September 21, 2001, terrorist Osama bin Laden may have chartered one of the Saudi flights.

This news garnered international headlines.

The document specifically states: "ON 9/19/01, A 727 PLANE LEFT LAX, RYAN FLT #441 TO ORLANDO, FL W/ETA (estimated time of arrival) OF 4-5PM. THE PLANE WAS CHARTERED EITHER BY THE SAUDI ARABIAN ROYAL FAMILY OR OSAMA BIN LADEN...THE LA FBI SEARCHED THE PLANE [REDACTED] LUGGAGE, OF WHICH NOTHING UNUSUAL WAS FOUND."

Even considering a possible direct bin Laden link to the flight, it was allowed to depart the United States after making four stops to pick up passengers, ultimately landing in Paris where all passengers disembarked on September 20, 2001, according to the document.

Overall, the FBI documents uncovered by Judicial Watch include details of the six flights between September 14 and September 24 that evacuated Saudi royals and bin Laden family members. The documents also contain brief interview summaries and occasional notes from intelligence analysts concerning the cursory screening performed prior to the departures. Only 4 of 100 passengers on three Saudi flights leaving Las Vegas between September 19 and September 24 were questioned by agents.

The documents contain numerous errors and inconsistencies. On one document the FBI claims to have interviewed 20 of 23 passengers on the Ryan International Airlines flight (commonly referred to as the "Bin Laden Family Flight"). On another document, however, the FBI claims to have interviewed 15 of 22 passengers on the same flight.

Judicial Watch lawyers obtained a court order from U.S. District Court Judge Richard W. Roberts requiring the FBI to resubmit "proper disclosures" to the Court and Judicial Watch. The judge had previously criticized the adequacy of redaction descriptions, the validity of exemption claims, and other errors in the FBI's disclosures. The FBI had previously redacted Osama bin Laden's name from the records in order "to protect privacy interests."

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