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  frontline: hunting bin laden: who is bin laden?: about the bin laden family | PBS
The relationship between the bin Ladens and the Saudi royal family is quite exceptional in that it not simply one of business ties: it is also a relationship of trust, of friendship and of shared secrets.
The bin Laden group is represented in most Saudi cities (Riyadh, Damman) and in a number of capital cities in the region: Beirut, Cairo, Amman, Dubai.
It is partly through the bin Ladens' influence that the Fluor group was one of the major recipients of reconstruction contracts in Kuwait.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/family.html   (3210 words)

  
  Osama bin Laden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bin laden was raised as a devout Sunni Muslim.
Bin Laden is also connected to the 1993 Battle of Mogadishu that killed 18 U.S. troops in Somalia and the 1996 bombing of the Khobar military complex in Saudi Arabia that left 21 U.S. soldiers dead.
Bin Laden was charged with "conspiracy to attack defense utilities of the United States" and prosecutors further charged that bin Laden is the head of the terrorist organization called al Qaeda, and that he was a major financial backer of Islamic terrorists worldwide.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Osama_bin_Laden   (4618 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Osama Bin Laden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Bin Laden has not been formally indicted, and evidence has not been mentioned that he was involved, in the United States criminal justice system for the September 11, 2001 attacks; he is officially still only a suspect in 'other terrorist attacks throughout the world'.
Bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in 1957, the 17th of 52 children of Muhammad bin Laden, a wealthy man involved in construction and with close ties to the royal family of Saudi Arabia.
Bin Laden was lauded as a hero in Saudi Arabia, but during the Gulf War against Iraq he was critical of Saudi Arabia's dependence on the U.S. military and demanded that all foreigners leave the country.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Osama-Bin-Laden   (1154 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden
Considered the world's foremost terrorist, Osama bin Laden is the leader of a terrorist organization known as Al-Qaeda, or "The Base." Bin Laden is the alleged perpetrator of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center, damaged part of the Pentagon, and resulted in a plane crash in Pennsylvania.
Bin Laden has been implicated in a string of deadly attacks on the United States and its allies: the 1993 World Trade Center bombing; the 1998 bombings at the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania that killed more than 200; and the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole in Yemen.
Bin Laden also claims responsibility for a 1993 gunfight that killed 18 U.S. troops in Somalia and the 1996 bombing of the Khobar military complex in Saudi Arabia that left 19 U.S. soldiers dead.
www.infoplease.com /spot/osamabinladen.html   (1101 words)

  
 Bin Laden Family Evacuated, Extended Family Of Osama Bin Laden Fled U.S. After Attacks - CBS News
The young members of the bin Laden family were driven or flown under FBI supervision to a secret place in Texas and then to Washington, The Times reported Sunday.
Osama bin Laden is one of more than 50 children of a Yemeni-born migrant who made a vast fortune building roads and palaces in Saudi Arabia and his extended family spans the globe.
Bin Laden is estranged from his family and from Saudi Arabia, which revoked his citizenship in the early 1990s after he was caught smuggling weapons from Yemen.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/09/30/archive/main313048.shtml   (511 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
Either the US$250-300 million estimate of bin Laden's assets is way too high, or the estimates of what it costs to run a terrorist network are way too high or he has some extremely lucrative source of income that provides him with far more than his inheritance did.
bin is written with a small b, because it's actually the word 'son' rather than a name.
Without really knowing anything about the family's history, I assume (or, rather, I guess) this 'Laden' character was a major player in the family's history and his sons took the last name as a sign of respect.
www.funtrivia.com /en/People/Osama-bin-Laden-5747.html   (1139 words)

  
 Osama Bin Laden: Family Man, Footage Shows Jolly Terrorist At His Son's Wedding - CBS News
Mohammed bin Laden married the daughter of Abu Hafas al-Masri, an Egyptian aide to the elder bin Laden who fought with him in the 1980s against Soviet forces in Afghanistan, Al-Jazeera said.
The younger bin Laden, wearing a traditional white Arab headdress, was shown sitting on a carpet between his father, who was wearing a white turban, and another man believed to be al-Masri.
Bin Laden has vowed in the past to fight the "enemies of Islam" -- an apparent reference to the United States, Israel and the Saudi royal family.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/01/10/world/main262982.shtml   (579 words)

  
 Bin Laden Family
The bin Laden family claims to have disowned Osama bin Laden in 1994 (see Shortly After April 9, 1994), and the US government officially designated him as a financier of terrorism in 1996.
Michael Scheuer, the head of the CIA Counter Terrorism Center’s special unit focusing on bin Laden from 1996 to 1999 (see February 1996), later will claim that before 9/11 members of the bin Laden family in the US are nearly completely off limits to US law enforcement.
The Bin Laden family formally disowned Osama in 1994 (see Shortly After April 9, 1994), but some suggest that some of his relatives continue to support him.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=bin_laden_family   (5116 words)

  
 FactCheck.org: Media Fund Twists the Truth More Than Michael Moore
The ad also falsely claims that the bin Laden family members were not "detained," when in fact 22 of them were questioned by the FBI before being allowed to leave -- and their plane was searched as well.
The bin Laden family members were among a number of other Saudi citizens and government officials who left the US on special charter flights because they feared possible reprisals in the emotional aftermath that swept the US in the days after the 9/11 attacks.
The ad is also false when it says members of the bin Laden family were not "detained." In fact, the 9/11 Commission report states that the FBI questioned 22 of the 26 passengers on the bin Laden flight, some of them in detail.
www.factcheck.org /article294.html   (1728 words)

  
 In These Times * Questionable Ties
At the time, Bath was the sole U.S. business representative for Salem bin Laden, head of the wealthy Saudi Arabian family and a brother (one of 17) to Osama bin Laden.
According to USA Today, bin Mahfouz and other Saudis attempted to transfer $3 million to various bin Laden front operations in Saudi Arabia in 1999.
The ties between bin Laden and the White House may be much closer than he is willing to acknowledge.
www.inthesetimes.com /issue/25/25/feature3.shtml   (707 words)

  
 South Asia News Views Discussion Info Network - Osama Bin Laden and Weapons of Mass Destruction   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
Even as controversy continues to surround Osama Bin Laden and his mortal status, there are reports that Islamic Jehadi groups led by Osama Bin Laden had acquired WMD’s including nuclear arsenal years ago.
Laden’s agents are reported to have paid $ 30 million cash and two tons of Afghan heroin worth $ 700 million in Western markets, to Chechen mafia for this purpose.
Osama Bin Laden’s quest for nuclear weapons commenced in 1996 and he is reported to have spent millions of dollars on this project.
www.southasia.net /article640.html   (680 words)

  
 Bush's Former Oil Company Linked To bin Laden Family
Salem bin Laden died in an airplane crash in Texas in 1988.
Sheik Mohammed bin Laden, the family patriarch and founder of its construction empire, also died in a plane crash.
When Salem bin Laden, Osama' brother, died in 1988, his interest in the Houston Gulf Airport was transferred to bin Mahfouz.
www.rense.com /general14/bushsformer.htm   (2203 words)

  
 US Officials Ask bin Laden Family for DNA Sample
The US government is seeking samples of DNA from Osama bin Laden's family to determine if human remains found in Afghanistan belong to the terrorist leader, government sources said Wednesday.
Tim Metz, a family spokesman in New York, said he was unaware of the US government's making any formal request to family members for samples.
Metz said bin Laden has about 50 siblings whose DNA could be used.
www.china.org.cn /english/FR/27737.htm   (323 words)

  
 Bin Laden Family Funds Conversion of Zulus to Islam
And Osama bin Laden still visits Saoudi Arabia and is not estranged from his family there, as is being reported in American government circles.
This was confirmed by Yusuf Deedat, Bin Laden's representative in Durban.
The Deedat family was rescued from bankruptcy two years ago by donating R1-million but didn't want their names on the building, Deedat junior said.
www.rense.com /general13/zulus.htm   (194 words)

  
 DEBKAfile - Bin Laden Family Packed out of Pakistan - Preparation for His Biggest World Strike?
Osama bin Laden has packed his entire family out of Afghanistan - wives, sons and daughters - and their wives, husbands and offspring.
In the light of the fresh intelligence, the bin Laden kinfolk may have photographed during their eastward move to the Pakistani frontier, in which case a rare opportunity of capturing them was missed.
If they are all right, bin Laden will expect his family to be discovered and its movements and communications subjected to the glaring spotlight of hostile intelligence.
www.debka.com /article.php?aid=305   (1085 words)

  
 BUSHLADEN
A family spokesman said he had no knowledge of the subpoenas but that the family welcomes them and has nothing to hide.
But a foreign financier with ties to the bin Laden family says the family's overall investment with Carlyle is considerably larger.
During the past several years, the family's close ties to the Saudi royal family prompted executives and staff from closely held New York publisher Forbes Inc. to make two trips to the family headquarters, according to Forbes Chairman Caspar Weinberger, a former U.S. secretary of defense in the Reagan administration.
emperors-clothes.com /news/bushladen.htm   (2717 words)

  
 WorldNetDaily: Bin Laden family gave $1 million to Carter
A brother of the al-Qaida terrorist leader, Bakr M. bin Laden, funneled the money to the Carter Center in Atlanta through the Saudi Bin Laden Group, according to Melanie Morgan, chairman of a group opposing the Georgia Democrat called the Censure Carter Committee.
She points to a report showing Carter met with 10 of Osama bin Laden's brothers early in 2000.
The former president and his wife, Rosalyn, followed up the meeting with a breakfast with Bakr bin Laden in September 2000 and secured the first $200,000 towards the more than $1 million that has gone to the Carter Center.
www.worldnetdaily.com /news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=50468   (627 words)

  
 Ties to bin Laden Family Misreported
The alleged “news” about the bin Laden family’s investment in one of Fremont’s funds is not new.
The bin Laden family is totally estranged from Osama.
There is no “money trail” between Osama and either the bin Laden family’s investment in a Fremont fund or Bechtel’s reconstruction work in Iraq.
www.bechtel.com /newsarticles/21.asp   (204 words)

  
 Bush took FBI agents off Laden family trail-World-The Times of India
london: america was itself to blame for the events of september 11 because the us administration was using "kid gloves" in tracking down osama bin laden and "other fanatics linked to saudi arabia", a special bbc investigation has alleged in a damning indictment of the two presidents bush and american foreign policy.
the bin ladens sold their stake in carlyle soon after september 11, it said.
american politicians later told the bbc programme that they rejected the accusation that the establishment had called the dogs of the intelligence agencies off the bin ladens and the royal house of saud because of a strategic interest in saudi arabia, which has the world's biggest oil reserve.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow.asp?art_id=1030259305   (297 words)

  
 Wall Street Journal: Bush Sr. in Business With Bin Laden Family Conglomerate Through Carlyle Group - Global Policy ...
The senior Bush had met with the bin Laden family at least twice.
Indeed, the Journal also reported yesterday that the FBI has subpoenaed the bin Laden family businesss bank records.
See "Bin Laden Family Could Profit From a Jump In Defense Spending Due to Ties to U.S. Bank," by Daniel Golden, James Bandler, and Marcus Walker, The Wall Street Journal, 9/28/01 (www.wsj.com, subscription required).
www.globalpolicy.org /wtc/analysis/0928bushsr.htm   (450 words)

  
 Bin Laden family values - Times Online
Bin Laden grew up during the 1960s and 1970s in Jidda, a port on the Red Sea in Saudi Arabia, 30 miles from Mecca.
Brian Fyfield-Shayler, a British citizen, lived in Saudi Arabia and taught English to a number of the Bin Laden boys: All the sons are very good-looking.
A relative of the Bin Laden family: Salem was a unique individual by any standard.
www.timesonline.co.uk /article/0,,2092-1974745,00.html   (1169 words)

  
 Infowars.com-- -- Government Prior Knowledge and Involvement in the 9-11 Attacks
A terrorist network funded by Osama Bin Laden was established in New York and California more than 10 years ago with operatives dispatched to America for training in aviation, urban warfare and sending booby-trapped letters.
MI5 was warned more than two years ago that an Islamic cleric said to be Osama Bin Laden’s “European ambassador” was using his mosque in London to raise money for a Muslim holy war in Afghanistan and to issue decrees justifying the murder of women and children.
Le Figaro said the meeting took place between July 4 and 14, while bin Laden was being treated for a serious kidney ailment at the American Hospital in Dubai.
www.infowars.com /resources.html   (5835 words)

  
 saudi-binladin-group.com - binladin group - bin laden group
Although the Binladin family group denounced their fallen son and any political affiliation of Al-Qaeda, on the same day as the terrorist attacks, the Binladin family website and all of their web pages, links, emails and domain name EXPIRED -- on September 11, 2001.
I found a number of websites linked to Osama Binladin and began to notice some startling parallels: the largest and most unbelievable was the expiration of a website owned by the Binladin family: www.saudi-binladin-group.com.
Moreover, why wouldn't a wealthy family simply pay (at most) a $35 annual fee to renew their chief corporation domain name?
saudi-binladin-group.com   (371 words)

  
 Al Qaeda - Osama bin Laden - The Taliban - Academic Info
War on Terrorism - Osama bin Laden, the Taliban and Terrorism
Beyond bin Laden: The Temptations of a Wider War
Wolfowitz- Bin Laden Is 'A Man On The Run' (11/21/01)
www.academicinfo.net /afghantaliban.html   (1307 words)

  
 NPR : Living with the Bin Laden Family
NPR : Living with the Bin Laden Family
Fresh Air from WHYY, August 4, 2004 · Carmen bin Laden is the sister-in-law of Osama bin Laden.
In 1974 she married Yeslam bin Laden; they separated 14 years later.
www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=3815720   (122 words)

  
 Video Bomb - Osama Bin Laden Family Guy
Osama Bin Laden Family GuyAidan Fleming Productions3 min 25 sec - Sep 9, 2006this is a funny video from family guy.
were osama bin laden trys to threat amercia but laughs ro many time
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www.videobomb.com /posts/show/4679   (220 words)

  
 Thread FULL!!!__AMERICA AT WAR!__Use New Thread!: bin Laden family money
bin Laden, a half-brother of Osama bin Laden, which manages a large part of
Osama bin Laden's half-brother Yeslam had denied last Fall any involvement
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www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/investing/68672/618239   (222 words)

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