bin Laden family#Family tree
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| origin = Hadhramaut, Yemen
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The bin Laden family ({{langx|ar|عائلة بن لادن|translit=bin Lādin}}), also spelled bin Ladin, is a wealthy Hadhrami family intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family. It is the namesake and controlling shareholder of the Saudi Binladin Group, a multinational construction firm. Following the September 11 attacks, the family became the subject of media attention and scrutiny due to the activities of Osama bin Laden, the former head of al-Qaeda, even though they publicly disowned him in 1994.
Beginnings
The family traces its origins to Awad bin Laden from the village of al-Rubat, in the Wadi Doan of the Tarim Valley, Hadramout governorate, Yemen.{{Cite web|url=https://www.geni.com/people/Awad-bin-Laden/6000000012473613524|title=Awad bin Aboud bin Laden|website=geni_family_tree|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-06}} Awad's son was Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (1908-1967). Mohammed bin Laden was a native of the Hadhramaut region in eastern Yemen, and, like many other Hadharem, 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 in Mecca. He made his initial fortune from exclusive rights to construct all mosques and other religious buildings not only in Saudi Arabia, but as far as Ibn Saud's influence reached. Until his death, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden had exclusive control over restorations at the Jami Al-Aqsa in Jerusalem. Soon, the bin Laden corporate network extended far beyond just construction sites.
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, Ghassan Sakr, and actor Omar 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.
Family members
American and European intelligence officials estimate that all the relatives of the family may number as many as 600. In 1994, the bin Laden family disowned Osama bin Laden, and the Saudi government revoked his passport.[http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=202969 bin Laden, Osama.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100211163425/http://www.history.com/encyclopedia.do?articleId=202969 |date=February 11, 2010}} The History Channel website. Retrieved on 8 April 2007. The Saudi government also stripped Osama of his citizenship for publicly speaking out against the government for permitting U.S. troops to be based in Saudi Arabia in preparation for the 1991 Gulf War.
The groupings of the bin Laden 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, most likely the country's largest private foreign investor. Osama bin Laden was born the only son of Muhammed bin Laden's tenth wife, Hamida al-Attas,{{cite news|url=https://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051212fa_fact|title=Letter From Jedda, Young Osama, How he learned radicalism, and may have seen America|author=Steve Coll|date=12 December 2005|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=5 December 2005|archive-date=July 8, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140708020958/http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051212fa_fact|url-status=dead}} who was of Syrian origin,{{cite web|url=http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/11/01/osama_profile/|title=Salon.com News – The making of Osama bin Laden|work=Salon.com|access-date=21 August 2006|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070307120137/http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/11/01/osama_profile/|archive-date=March 7, 2007|url-status=dead|df=mdy-all}} making Osama a member of the Syrian group.
=First generation=
- Muhammed bin Awad bin Laden (1908–1967) was the family patriarch and founder; 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 54 children, his 17th child was Osama bin Laden, who was the son of Hamida al-Attas (born in Syria), Muhammed’s tenth wife. The couple divorced soon after Osama was born, and Hamida was given in marriage to one of the executives of Muhammed's company around 1958. In 1967, Muhammed was killed in an airplane crash in Saudi Arabia when his pilot misjudged a landing.
- Muhammad al-Attas is Osama's stepfather in whose household Osama was raised at Jeddah, and worked at the bin Laden company. The couple had four children in addition to Osama: three boys and a girl, Fatima Mohammed al-Attas.
- Abdallah bin Laden is the brother of Mohammed and the uncle of Osama; headed the Saudi Binladin Group (SBG); died in Medina, March 21, 2002, at age 75.{{Cite web
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=Second generation=
- Salem bin Laden (1946–1988) attended Millfield, the English boarding school. He took over the family empire in 1967 upon the death of his father; also an amateur rock guitarist in the 1970s. He married an English art student, Caroline Carey, whose half-brother, Ambrose, is the son of the Marquess of Queensberry. Salem died outside San Antonio, Texas in 1988, when an experimental ultralight plane that he was flying got tangled in power lines.
- Tarek bin Laden (born 1947); once called "the personification of the dichotomy (conservatism and change) of Saudi Arabia".{{cite web |author=Kenneth C. Crowe |title=The Dichotomy of Saudi Arabia |date=26 May 1976 |url=http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001975/Crowe/Crowe09/Crowe09.html |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100318040813/http://www.aliciapatterson.org/APF001975/Crowe/Crowe09/Crowe09.html|archive-date=March 18, 2010|df=mdy-all}}
- Bakr bin Laden (born 1946) succeeded Salem as the 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/bin.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202191329/http://www.papillonsartpalace.com/bin.htm|url-status=usurped|title=Boston Herald, 9/2/01|archive-date=December 2, 2013}}
- Mahrous bin Laden, implicated in the Grand Mosque Seizure carried out by dissidents against the Saudi ruling family at the Masjid al-Haram in Makkah on November 20, 1979. This event shook the Muslim world with the ensuing violence and the 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 arrested for a time, but was not beheaded by the Saudi government alongside 63 others who were, with their public executions broadcast live on 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, died May 2, 2011, in Pakistan) was a terrorist who co-founded the terrorism group Al-Qaeda, which was responsible for the attacks such as the 1998 United States embassy bombings, the 2002 Bali bombings, and most infamously, the September 11 attacks. His death was announced on May 2, 2011.{{cite news |date=May 24, 2006 |title=Osama claims responsibility for 9/11 |url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com:80/articleshow/1550477.cms |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071225185732/http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com:80/articleshow/1550477.cms |url-status=dead |archive-date=2007-12-25 |work=The Times of India}} He was one of the FBI's Most Wanted Terrorists.
- 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. 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 funneled 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 1993 World Trade Centre 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 theaters in Amman in 1994, for which he had been under a possible death sentence, convicted in absentia. His conviction was later overturned in a new trial, which resulted in an acquittal. In 1996, Khalifa returned to Saudi Arabia, where he was again arrested after 9/11, but later released. He lived in Saudi Arabia and was assassinated in 2007 in Madagascar.
- Yeslam bin Ladin (born 1950) studied in the 1970s at the University of Southern California, in Los Angeles; settled in Switzerland; became a Swiss citizen in 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 1981{{Cite web |title=Interview with Osama bin Laden's Brother Yaslam bin Laden |url=http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=737 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20051102212151/http://www.memritv.org/Transcript.asp?P1=737 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2005-11-02 }}
- Abdullah bin Laden (born 1965); a graduate of Harvard Law School,{{citation needed|date=October 2015}} Abdullah lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts on 9/11, and was the only bin Laden relative to remain in the United States, staying in Boston for almost a month following the attacks.{{citation needed|date=October 2015}}
- Shafig bin Laden, the half-brother of Osama, was a guest of honour at the Carlyle Group's Washington conference at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on September 11, 2001, and was among the 13 members of the family to leave the United States on September 19, 2001, aboard flight N521DB.{{cite book| url = https://books.google.com/books?id=9GuVyDhlswoC&q=Shafig+OR+Shafiq+%22bin+Laden%22+George+Bush&pg=PT312| title = The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America| publisher = Penguin| author = Eric Alterman, Mark J. Green| date = 2004| isbn = 9781101200810| access-date = 22 February 2014| quote = The extremely influential Carlyle Group has arranged similar gatherings during the previous fourteen years, beneath the radar of most of the mass media, between former politicians like Bush, James Baker, John Major, former World Bank treasurer Afsaneh Masheyekhi, and interested parties looking for some extremely expensive, high-powered lobbying services. On September 11, 2001, the Group happened to be hosting a conference at a Washington hotel. Among the guest of honor: investor Shafig bin Laden, another brother to Osama.}}{{cite news | url = http://www.carlyle.com/Media%20Room/Fact%20Sheet%20Files/item9959.pdf| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080910093351/http://www.carlyle.com/Media%20Room/Fact%20Sheet%20Files/item9959.pdf| url-status = dead| archive-date = 2008-09-10| title = Big Deals. David Rubenstein and His Partners Have Made Billions With the Carlyle Group, the World's Hottest Private Equity Firm. How Have They Made All That Money? Why Are They in Washington?| publisher = The Washingtonian | author = James K. Glassman| date = June 2006| access-date = February 22, 2014}}{{cite news | url = http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1875084| title = The Carlyle Group: C for Capitalism| publisher = The Economist| date = 26 June 2003 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20051212013149/http://www.economist.com/printedition/displayStory.cfm?Story_ID=1875084| archive-date = 12 December 2005| access-date = 22 February 2014| url-status = live | quote = ON the day Osama bin Laden's men attacked America, Shafiq bin Laden, described as an estranged brother of the terrorist, was at an investment conference in Washington, DC, along with two people who are close to President George Bush: his father, the first President Bush, and James Baker, the former secretary of state who masterminded the legal campaign that secured Dubya's move to the White House.}}{{cite news | url = https://www.theguardian.com/theobserver/2002/jun/16/features.magazine57| title = Dark heart of the American dream| work = The Guardian| author = Ed Vulliamy |date = 16 May 2002 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080917122104/http://www.guardian.co.uk/theobserver/2002/jun/16/features.magazine57 |archive-date = 17 September 2008 |access-date = 22 February 2014 |url-status = live | quote = On 11 September, while Al-Qaeda's planes slammed into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, the Carlyle Group hosted a conference at a Washington hotel. Among the guests of honour was a valued investor: Shafig bin Laden, brother to Osama.}}{{cite news| url = http://nsnbc.me/2013/04/30/is-kissing-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-a-terrorist-act-political-satire| title = Is Kissing a "State Sponsor of Terrorism" a "Terrorist Act"? Political Satire| publisher = NSNBC| author = Michel Chossudovsky| date = 13 April 2013| archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20130502010243/http://nsnbc.me/2013/04/30/is-kissing-a-state-sponsor-of-terrorism-a-terrorist-act-political-satire| archive-date = May 2, 2013| access-date = 22 February 2014| url-status = dead| quote = There is nothing wrong, therefore, in socialising and doing business with family members of terror mastermind Osama bin Laden, including the late Salem bin Laden and Shafiq bin Laden of the Carlyle Group.}}
=Third generation=
- Wafah Dufour (born 1975), daughter of Yeslam bin Laden, 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 (1979) and Noor (1987), her mother (1954) and her father (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 a summer holiday at the time of the attacks.
- Abdullah Osama bin Laden (born 1976), son of Osama and Najwa. He is reportedly residing in Saudi Arabia, and runs his own firm, called Fame Advertising, in Jeddah; 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.{{cite news | date = November 5, 2001 | title = The House of bin Laden | url = https://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/011112fa_FACT3?011112fa_FACT3 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20070222215131/http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/011112fa_FACT3?011112fa_FACT3 | url-status = dead | archive-date = February 22, 2007 |magazine=The New Yorker| access-date =June 20, 2006}}
- Abdul Rahman bin Laden (born 1979), the second son of Osama and Najwa. As a child he was born with hydrocephalus, and his father took him to the United Kingdom for medical treatment. However, he refused to allow British surgeons to operate on the boy and tried to treat him himself using a folk remedy of honey. He ended up having an intellectual disability and autism.{{Cite book|last=Wright|first=Lawrence|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/761224415|title=The looming tower : Al-Qaeda and the road to 9/11|date=2011|isbn=978-0-525-56436-2|edition=First Vintage books edition, [revised]|location=New York|oclc=761224415}}{{Cite web|date=2018-01-29|title=Fate of bin Laden's children gleaned from the Abbottabad files|url=https://english.alarabiya.net/features/2018/01/29/Fate-of-bin-Laden-s-children-gleaned-from-the-Abbottabad-files|access-date=2021-06-10|website=Al Arabiya English|language=en}} As an adult he moved to Syria with his mother in 2011.
- Saad bin Laden (1979–2009) son of Osama and Najwa; Saad accompanied Osama on his exile to Sudan from 1991 to 1996, and then to Afghanistan. He was believed to be married to a woman from Yemen. Saad reportedly arrived in Iran in 2002 from Afghanistan, with a fake Iranian passport using the name Saad Mahmoudian. The customs officer immediately recognized that the passport was fake, and searched and questioned Saad briefly. He notified airport security but did not notify the Ministry of Intelligence and National Security of Iran (which is also responsible for identifying detained people at airports) as he was supposed to. As a result, the officer found nothing suspicious about his entrance and permitted him to leave Tehran. 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. He was put under house arrest by the Iran government,{{cite news |date=March 15, 2010 |title=Bin Laden's son says Iran should free his siblings |url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-03-15-bin-laden-iran-children_N.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305104449/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-03-15-bin-laden-iran-children_N.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2016-03-05 |access-date=June 5, 2012 |work=USA Today |agency=Associated Press}} but later escaped by January 2009{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2009-jan-17-fg-intel17-story.html |title=Osama bin Laden's son may be in Pakistan too |work= Los Angeles Times |author=Greg Miller |date=January 17, 2009 |access-date=June 4, 2012}} and fled to Pakistan. Saad was later killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2009.{{cite news |author=Christina Lamb |date=May 7, 2012 |title=Iran double-crossed Osama bin Laden |url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/iran-double-crossed-osama-bin-laden/story-fnb64oi6-1226348138493 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120507052504/http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/iran-double-crossed-osama-bin-laden/story-fnb64oi6-1226348138493 |url-status=dead |archive-date=2012-05-07 |access-date=June 5, 2012 |publisher=The Australian}} Al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri confirmed Saad's death in a videotape three years later.{{cite web|url=https://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article109486119/Al-Qaida-bestaetigt-Tod-von-Bin-Ladens-Sohn-Saad.html |title=Terror-Sprössling: Al-Qaida bestätigt Tod von Bin Ladens Sohn Saad - Nachrichten Politik - Ausland - DIE WELT |access-date=2014-02-05 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020114191003/http://www.welt.de/politik/ausland/article109486119/Al-Qaida-bestaetigt-Tod-von-Bin-Ladens-Sohn-Saad.html |archive-date=January 14, 2002 |df=mdy}}{{Cite web|url=https://ojihad.wordpress.com/2012/09/28/al-qaida-confirms-sa%c2%b4ad-bin-laden-is-dead/|title=Al-Qaida Confirms: Sa´ad Bin Laden Is Dead|date=September 28, 2012}}
- Omar bin Laden (born 1981) son of Osama and Najwa; Omar accompanied Osama on his exile to Sudan from 1991 to 1996, and then to Afghanistan. He returned to Saudi Arabia after an apparent falling-out with his father over Omar's disagreement with violence. For a while, Omar ran his own company in Jeddah as a contractor. Omar has one son, Ahmed, by his ex-wife, whom he had divorced 3 times by 2006. In September 2006, he married Zaina and they are now said to be living in a secret location in Qatar. He is now reported to be living in Normandie,{{Cite web|date=2021-03-03|title=Un des fils d'Oussama Ben Laden a trouvé refuge dans la peinture|url=https://www.lepoint.fr/arts/un-des-fils-d-oussama-ben-laden-a-trouve-refuge-dans-la-peinture-03-03-2021-2416140_36.php|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Le Point|language=fr}} France, with his wife.{{Cite web|title=Osama bin Laden's Son is a Painter. America is His Muse.|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/osama-bin-laden-son-omar-artwork-trauma-america/|access-date=2021-03-08|website=Vice.com|date=March 2021 |language=en}}
- 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.
- Hamza bin Laden (1989–2017/2019), also the son of Osama, was groomed to be Osama's heir following Saad's death. On February 28, 2019, the U.S. State Department offered a reward of up to $1 million for information on Hamza bin Laden's whereabouts. The announcement described Hamza bin Laden as a "key leader" of Al-Qaeda who had released audio and video messages on the internet calling for attacks on the U.S. and its western allies to avenge his father's killing.{{cite web |title=Rewards for Justice - Reward Offer for Information on al-Qa'ida Key Leader Hamza bin Laden |url=https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2019/02/289790.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190301033817/https://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2019/02/289790.htm |url-status=dead |archive-date=2019-03-01 |access-date=1 March 2019 |website=U.S. Department of State}} On July 31, 2019, it was reported that Hamza bin Laden was believed to have been killed in the first two years of the first Trump administration, which began on January 20, 2017.{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/31/us/politics/hamza-bin-laden-al-qaeda.html |title=Hamza bin Laden, Son and Heir to Qaeda Founder, Is Dead |first1=Julian E. |last1=Barnes |first2=Adam |last2=Goldman |author2-link=Adam Goldman |first3=Eric |last3=Schmitt |author3-link=Eric Schmitt (journalist) |date=July 31, 2019 |newspaper=The New York Times |access-date=July 31, 2019 |page=8}} On September 14, 2019, U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed that Hamza bin Laden was killed in a U.S. counter-terrorism operation in the Afghanistan/Pakistan region. Other details were not disclosed.{{cite web|url=https://bnonews.com/index.php/2019/09/bin-ladens-son-killed-in-u-s-operation-trump-says/|title=Bin Laden's son killed in U.S. operation, Trump says|publisher=BNO News|date=2019-09-14}}
- Khaled bin Laden, son of Osama, was killed along with his father at Abbottabad, Pakistan, May 2, 2011.{{Cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/osama-bin-laden-killed-in-us-raid-buried-at-sea/2011/05/02/AFx0yAZF_story.html|title=Osama bin Laden killed in U.S. raid, buried at sea|newspaper=Washington Post}}
- Abdul Aziz bin Laden, manages the SBG's Egyptian operations; ranked Number 2 in the 2006 UAE National Superstock Bike Championship.{{Cite web |url=http://www.thermo.ae/thermo/news/thermo160306.htm |title=The pulse-pounding excitement is set to continue at the third Motor Sport Club Raceday. |date=March 16, 2006 |publisher=thermo.ae |access-date=September 21, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081210195157/http://www.thermo.ae/thermo/news/thermo160306.htm |archive-date=December 10, 2008 |df=mdy}}
- Mariah bin Laden, grandson of Osama. Not much else is known about him.
Family tree
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- Tarek bin Laden (b. 1947)
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- Tarek bin Laden
- Ahmed bin Laden
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- Abdalla Mohammed Shaheen (b. 1976)
- Abdul Rahman bin Laden (b. 1978)
- Saad bin Laden (1979–2009)
- Omar bin Laden (b. 1981)
- Osman bin Laden (b. 1983)
- Mohammed bin Osama bin Laden (b. 1983)
- Fatima bin Laden (b. 1987)
- Zulki bin Laden (b. 1990)
- Laden "Bakr" bin Laden (b. 1993)
- Zakaria bin Laden (b. 1997)
- Nour bin Laden (b. 1999)
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- Ali bin Laden (b. 1986)
- Amer bin Laden (b. 2005)
- Aisha bin Laden (b. 1992)
|morek2=Hamza bin Laden (1989–2019)
|sihkid=
- Khalid bin Laden (1988–2011)
- Khadija bin Laden (1988–2007)
- Miriam bin Laden (b. 1990)
- Sumaiya bin Laden (b. 1992)
|omgfinally=
- Ryon bin Laden (b. 1993) (?)
- Safia bin ladenSAFIA bin Laden (b. 2001/9/14)
- Aasiah bin Laden (b. 2003) (?)
- Ibrahim bin Laden (b. 2004) (?)
- Zainab bin Laden (b. 2006) (?)
- Hussein bin Laden (b. 2008) (?)}}
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Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden's sons
Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden's (1908–1967) known sons:
- Salem bin Laden (d. 1988) married Caroline Carey
- Ali bin Laden
- Thabet bin Laden (d. 2009)
- Mahrous bin Laden
- Hassan bin Laden
- Bakr bin Laden
- Khalid bin Laden
- Yeslam bin Ladin (born 1950) married Carmen bin Ladin (born 1954)
- Wafah Dufour (born 1978)
- Najia Dufour (born 1979)
- Noor Dufour (born 1987)
- Ghalib bin Laden
- Yahya bin Laden
- Omar bin Laden
- Abdul Aziz bin Laden
- Issa bin Laden
- Tarek bin Laden
- Ahmed bin Laden
- Ibrahim bin Laden
- Shafiq bin Laden
- Osama bin Laden (d. 2011) married Najwa Ghanem (born 1960)
- Khalil bin Ladin
- Saleh bin Ladin
- Haider bin Laden
- Saad bin Laden
- Abdullah bin Laden
- Yasser bin Laden
- Mohammad bin Laden (born 1967)
Osama bin Laden's children
Osama bin Laden's known children, from his respective wives, include:
- by Najwa Ghanem:
- Abdallah bin Laden (born 1976)
- Abdul Rahman bin Laden (born 1978)
- Saad bin Laden (1979–2009), killed in a drone strike in Pakistan's tribal region in 2009.{{Cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8164763.stm|title=Bin Laden son 'probably killed'|date=July 23, 2009|via=news.bbc.co.uk}}
- Omar bin Laden (born 1981), married Zaina Alsabah-Bin Laden 2006 to date.
- Osman bin Laden (born 1983)
- Mohammed bin Osama bin Laden (born 1985)
- Fatima bin Laden (born 1987)
- Iman bin Laden (born 1990)
- Laden "Bakr" bin Laden (born 1993)
- Roqaya bin Laden (born 1997)
- Nour bin Laden (born 1999)
- by Khadijah Sharif:
- Ali bin Laden (born 1986)
- Amer bin Laden (born 2005)
- Aisha bin Laden (born 1992)
- by Khairiah Sabar:
- Hamza bin Laden (1989–late 2010s)
- by Siham Sabar:
- Khalid bin Laden (1988–2011), killed during the Navy SEAL raid in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
- Kadhija bin Laden (1988–2007), died in childbirth in Pakistan's tribal region, according to al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri.{{Cite web |url=https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/dr-ayman-al-e1ba93awc481hirc4ab-e2809cdays-with-the-imc481m-3e280b3-ar.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=February 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221110426/https://azelin.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/dr-ayman-al-e1ba93awc481hirc4ab-e2809cdays-with-the-imc481m-3e280b3-ar.pdf |archive-date=February 21, 2017 |url-status=dead }}
- Miriam bin Laden (born 1990)
- Sumaiya bin Laden (born 1992)
Bin Laden flights
Around 13 members of the bin Laden family, alongside their associates and bodyguards, flew out of the United States on a chartered flight with Ryan International Airlines (Ryan International Flight 441),{{cite web|url = http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2007/Saudi%20Docs%202.pdf|title = Response to October 2003 Vanity Fair Article (Re: Binladen Family Departures After 09/11/2001)|author = PENTTBOM Team|publisher = Federal Bureau of Investigation|date = April 13, 2007|page = 34|access-date = January 17, 2010|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140225071325/http://www.judicialwatch.org/archive/2007/Saudi%20Docs%202.pdf|archive-date = February 25, 2014|url-status = dead}} eight days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a passenger manifest released on July 21, 2004.{{cite news|url = https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A4014-2004Jul21.html|title = Plane Carried 13 Bin Ladens: Manifest of Sept. 19, 2001, Flight From U.S. Is Released|author=Dana Milbank|newspaper=The Washington Post|date = July 22, 2004|page = A07}} The passenger list was obtained and released by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), who acquired it from officials at Boston's Logan International Airport. None of the flights, domestic or international, took place before the reopening of national airspace on the morning of September 13 and the 9/11 Commission found "no evidence of a political intervention".{{cite web|url = http://911.gnu-designs.com/Chapter_10.html|title = 9/11 Commission Report|author=9/11 Commission}}
Among the passengers with the bin Laden surname were Omar Awad bin Laden, who had lived with Osama's son Abdallah Awad 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 Osama's who was reportedly attending the annual investor conference of the Carlyle Group. Also on board was Akberali Moawalla, an official with the investment company run by Yeslam bin Ladin, another of Osama bin Laden's half brothers. Records show that a passenger, Kholoud Kurdi, lived in Northern Virginia with a bin Laden relative.
The bin Laden flights received fresh publicity when they were discussed in Michael Moore's controversial documentary Fahrenheit 9/11.{{cite web|url = https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fahrenheit_9/11_controversies | title = "Fahrenheit 9/11" Controversies, Wikipedia}}{{Circular reference|date=August 2024}}
The 9/11 Commission found that the "FBI conducted a satisfactory screening of Saudi nationals who left the United States on charter flights. The Saudi government was advised of and agreed to the FBI's requirements that passengers be identified and checked against various databases before the flights departed. The Federal Aviation Administration representative working in the FBI operations center made sure that the FBI was aware of the flights of Saudi nationals and was able to screen the passengers before they were allowed to depart."
References
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Further reading
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- {{cite book| last = Coll| first = Steve| date = April 1, 2008| title = The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century| publisher=Penguin}}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20091228112055/http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iUFngSzcQW6O0OdK4PR-JheRk2hA Bin Laden's daughter free to leave Tehran: Iran FM] (AFP December 25, 2009)
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