Salem M. bin Laden (1946 - May 29, 1988) was a Saudi Arabian investor. 1946 (MCMXLVI) was a common year starting on Tuesday. ... May 29 is the 149th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (150th in leap years). ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is a country on the Arabian Peninsula. ...

The eldest of the bin Laden brothers (a half-brother and cousin of Osama bin Laden), he acted as the patriarch of the bin Laden family after the death of his father Mohammed bin Laden. Salem managed the family's extensive investment portfolio (thought to be valued at around $16 billion). Although it had distanced itself from their brother and former company employee, The Saudi Binladin Group's corporate website , www.saudi-binladin-group.com, coincidentally also had expired on September 11, 2001, the same day as the attacks in the United States. Osama bin Laden in a photo from the 1990s Usāmah bin Muhammad bin `Awad bin Lādin (born March 10, 1957) (Arabic: ), commonly known as Osama bin Laden, or Usama bin Laden, (Arabic: ), is the founder of al-Qaeda. ... The immensely rich bin Laden family, intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family was thrown into prominence through the activities of Osama bin Laden. ... Shaikh Mohammed bin Laden, also known as Mohammed Awad bin Laden (1895?-1968), a Yemeni immigrant to Saudi Arabia was a wealthy investor, businessman and patriarch of the bin Laden family. ...

Salem bin Laden was, through his American representative James R. Bath, an investor in Arbusto Energy, a small oil company run by George W. Bush. 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 (Arbusto Oil) was a petroleum and energy corporation formed in Midland, Texas, in 1977, by George W. Bush. ... George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is the 43rd and current President of the United States since 2001. ...

Political connections and Salem's unusual death in an ultralight aircraft accident outside San Antonio, Texas, have been cited in various conspiracy theories. Downtown San Antonio as viewed from the Tower of the Americas Motto: Nickname: Alamo City Location in Texas Founded Incorporated 1731   County Bexar County Borough Parrish Mayor Phil Hardberger Area  - Total  - Water 1,067. ... ... This proposed logo for a U.S. government agency was dropped due to fears that its pseudo-Masonic symbolism would provoke conspiracy theories. ...

External link

• Newspaper report on the circumstances of Salem bin Laden's death
• The House of bin Laden
• Bin Laden-Bath trust agreement