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In the News (Mon 7 Dec 09)

  
  Osama bin Laden
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.
Bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia around 1957 to a father of Yemeni origins and a Syrian mother.
www.infoplease.com /spot/osamabinladen.html   (1106 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden
Osama bin Laden was born in 1957 and developed a bad case of "middle-child syndrome" -- he was the 17th of 52 children.
At first, bin Laden responded to the invasion with an offer to deploy his mujahideen in defense of Saudi Arabia, but he was spurned in favor of an armed assist from George HW Bush.
The heat began to stick to bin Laden, and in spring 1996, President Bill Clinton signed an executive order authorizing the CIA to destroy bin Laden's network through any available means, and later that year, a secret grand jury began investigating his activities.
www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/terrorists/osama-bin-laden   (3045 words)

  
 Jihad Unspun - Inside Bin Laden's Network
Bin Laden senior was a devout man, raised in the strict and conservative Wahhabi strand of Sunni Islam.
Mohammed Bin Laden had, in the words of the French engineer, "changed wives like you or I change cars." He had three Saudi wives, Wahhabis like their husband, who were more or less permanent.
Bin Laden's mother, Hamida, was not a Saudi or a Wahhabi, but a stunningly beautiful, cosmopolitan, educated 22-year-old daughter of a Syrian trader.
www.jihadunspun.com /BinLadensNetwork/background/tmoobl.html   (3805 words)

  
 ATTACK on AMERICA - Osama bin Laden
Though Mohammed became one of the world's richest men, he was unassuming and "didn't act rich," recalled Gerry Auerbach of Texas, a pilot who flew the father's private plane around Saudi Arabia between 1966 and 1967.
Mohammed was killed in 1968 when his plane, flown by another pilot, crashed in the mountains of southwestern Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed M. bin Laden, another brother, bought properties in the 1990s in and around Boston, according to property records – including condos at the ritzy Flagship Wharf overlooking Boston Harbor and marinas at which dozens of yachts are moored.
multimedia.belointeractive.com /attack/binladen/1004blfamily.html   (891 words)

  
 Who Is Osama Bin Laden? - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Osama bin Mohammed bin Avad bin Laden is also known by his noms de guerre "Modjahed," "Abu Abdallah," "Khadz" or "The Director." He was born on June 28, 1957 in the city of Jidda, Saudi Arabia, on the shore of the Red Sea.
In 1998, the Taliban regime even declared that bin Laden was innocent in the bombings of the U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania; it also rejected any claims of his culpability in the bombing of the USS Cole in October 2000.
Bin Laden continues to use his own personal fortune to finance his jihad, but he also receives financing from well-wishers in Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other Islamic countries; another source of revenue is the international heroin trade, in which Afghanistan is one of the key players.
www.forbes.com /2001/09/14/0914whoisobl.html   (1474 words)

  
 Bin Laden family - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mohammed bin Laden was a native of the Chafeite (Sunni) Hadhramaut coast in southern Yemen and emigrated to Saudi Arabia prior to World War I.
The bin Laden connection with the House of Saud was severely strained in 1979, when pro-Iranian Islamist insurgents briefly took control of the mosque at Mecca.
^ "THE HOUSE OF BIN LADEN", The New Yorker, 2001-11-05.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bin_Laden_family   (1938 words)

  
 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.
This unseemly publicity did nothing to shake the confidence of Yeslam bin Laden, doubtless an indication that the lawyer is top-notch in his profession (he is also counsel to the financial group of William Kazan, who is currently liquidating a major portion of his banking investments).
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   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Osama bin Laden is a 44 year-old "businessman" and son of one of Saudi Arabia's wealthiest families, He is reputed to be the coordinator of an international terrorist network responsible for numerous deadly attacks against American and Western targets.
She was Mohammed bin Laden's tenth or eleventh spouse, and was known as the "the slave wife." No doubt this also impacted upon Osama’s status within the family and perhaps influenced the development of his attitudes toward dress and the value of women in the overall scheme of things.
Bin Laden's family, worried that his activities might jeopardize their close relations with the ruling clan, tried to bring him back into the fold but were forced eventually to effectively disown him.
www.jonsquillministries.org /osama_bin_laden.htm   (8994 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden Summary
Osama bin Laden, identified in United States government documents as "Usama Bin Laden," was born in 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Islamic fundamentalist leader Osama bin Laden (born 1957), a harsh critic of the United States and its policies, is widely believed to have orchestrated the 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in East Africa, as well as the October 2000 attack on the...
Osama bin Laden, an Islamic militant and terrorist, was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the seventeenth son in a family of over fifty children.
www.bookrags.com /Osama_bin_Laden   (292 words)

  
 Mohammed bin Laden - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As the "royal builder," Mohammed bin Laden forged close relationships with the royal family, particularly Prince Faisal of Saudi Arabia.
On September 3, 1967, Mohammed bin Laden was killed when his company airplane, a Beechcraft flown by an American charter pilot, crashed during landing at Hamis Musayt, in southwest Saudi Arabia.
Mohammed bin Laden (born approximately 1983) is a son of Osama bin Laden.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mohammed_bin_Laden   (652 words)

  
 Bin Laden family sells London offices   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bin Laden’s brother Saleh Mohammed, 46, who gives his address as a post box number in Jeddah, is a director of SBG.
Bin Laden has 50 siblings, who are said to have disowned him before his Al-Qaeda terror network carried out the American attacks.
Dr Abdullah Mohammed Bin Laden, one of Osama’s younger brothers, told a British newspaper during a business trip to the UK a year ago that the family had attempted to bring the terrorist back into the fold.
www.prisonplanet.com /news_alert_120802_terror.html   (793 words)

  
 Osama Bin Laden
Mohammed helped Bin Laden set up his new home and terrorist base in Khartoum, Sudan where 2000 "Arab Afghans" the name given to the Arab veterans of the Afghanistan jihad — were headquartered in Bin Laden terrorist camps.
Mohammed continued to travel between the terrorist camps in Afghanistan, Bin Laden's base in the Sudan and the United States.
Mohammed had also tried to cultivate a relationship with the CIA, which did not succeed, although he had far better success in playing off the FBI against the CIA in his dealings with both agencies.
www.iacsp.com /itobli3.html   (1980 words)

  
 Mohammed bin Laden
Bakr bin Laden, one of Mohammed’s sons, is running the company by this time.
Mohammed bin Laden (center), the son of Osama bin Laden (right), marries the daughter of Mohammed Atef (left).
Although Osama bin Laden is supposedly long estranged from his family, bin Laden’s stepmother, two brothers, and sister are also said to attend, according to the only journalist who was invited.
www.cooperativeresearch.org /entity.jsp?entity=mohammed_bin_laden   (439 words)

  
 CNN.com - Search for bin Laden tightens in Pakistan - Mar. 7, 2003
Bin Laden is considered the most wanted man in the world for his role in the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
Unlike Mohammed, who was captured in a home in an Islamabad suburb, bin Laden is likely in a more remote area, along with a contingent of bodyguards, Musharraf told CNN.
Mohammed is believed to have been a key planner of the September 11 terrorist attacks and his name has been linked to al Qaeda atrocities in Asia, Africa and Europe.
www.cnn.com /2003/WORLD/asiapcf/south/03/06/bin.laden.alive/index.html   (650 words)

  
 osama bin laden - wanted dead or alive? sept 11 photo of the week, from teaching and undersanding 9-11 by mark hamm and ...
Bin Laden's whereabouts remain mystery: U.S. officials still do not know where Osama bin Laden is, but capturing the al Qaeda leader isn't a prime mission of the Bush administration, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Sunday.
Bin Laden Recruits With Graphic Video: The film is a powerful bit of work, tailored for young Arabic men in the manner of a well-done army recruitment tape.
Bin Laden, seething with humiliation and rage, could do nothing but watch as 300,000 U.S. troops arrived in his country and set about building bases, drinking Coke and alcohol and sunbathing.
www.stopviolence.com /9-11/arts/binladen.htm   (2862 words)

  
 OSAMA BIN LADEN
Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh around 1957, the son of a wealthy contractor of Yemenite descent.
Intelligence sources also charge bin Laden's network with the 1995 bombings of US and Saudi military facilities in Riyadh and Dhahran which claimed more than 25 lives, and with plotting attacks on US servicemen in Yemen, on their way to serve with "Operation Restore Hope" in Somalia.
Bin Laden has been connected as well with the murder of dozens of tourists in Egypt, and over 20 Egyptians in a bombing at that country's embassy in Karachi in 1995.
www.cdn-friends-icej.ca /medigest/sept99/osama.html   (1112 words)

  
 CNN.com - Bin Laden: 'Your security is in your own hands' - Oct 29, 2004
CNN's Nic Robertson and Octavia Nasr analyze the videotape from Osama bin Laden.
We agreed with the leader of the group, Mohammed Atta, to perform all attacks within 20 minutes before [President George W.] Bush and his administration were aware of what was going on.
And we never knew that the commander-in-chief of the American armed forces would leave 50,000 of his people in the two towers to face those events by themselves when they were in the most urgent need of their leader.
www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/meast/10/29/bin.laden.transcript   (851 words)

  
 Bin Laden's neice strips down for GQ
NEW YORK (AP) -- Osama bin Laden's niece, in an interview with GQ magazine in which she appears scantily clad, says she has nothing in common with the al Qaeda leader and simply wants acceptance by Americans.
Dufour, who adopted her mother's maiden name after the September 11, 2001, attacks that have been blamed on bin Laden, appears in several provocative photos in the magazine.
Yeslam and Osama are among 54 children of the late Saudi construction magnate Mohammed bin Laden and his 22 wives.
www.infowars.com /articles/us/binladen_neice_strips_down_for_gq.htm   (430 words)

  
 The Bush - Bin Laden Connection - Part 1
While this argument creates a moral firewall for anyone dealing with the other bin Ladens, the firewall is undermined by circumstantial evidence to the contrary.
The U.S.-led effort to freeze Osama-linked assets reportedly is probing financial transactions of the wider bin Laden clan, which is closely tied to the Saudi royal family.
Like George W. Bush, the fortune of Osama bin Laden is rooted in oil and his family’s government connections.
expage.com /notowaroniraq15   (408 words)

  
 Never Yet Melted » Bin Laden a Security Risk
A senior lieutenant to Osama bin Laden has told US interrogators that the al-Qa’eda leader’s big mouth was a security liability.
Mohammed cites bin Laden’s decision to inform a group of visitors to his Afghan headquarters that he was about to launch a major attack on American interests.
Mohammed and a fellow terrorist manager, Mohammed Atef, who was later killed in an American air attack, were so concerned that they asked bin Laden to shut up.
neveryetmelted.com /?p=862   (267 words)

  
 September 11 News.com - Osama bin Laden - Profiles of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida, and the Taliban in Afghanistan. Wanted ...
September 11 News.com - Osama bin Laden - Profiles of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida, and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
A Saudi, Osama bin Laden is the 17th child, of 50-53 children, from a family that ran the largest
In 1999, bin Laden moves to the village Farmifadda, Afghanistan.
www.september11news.com /OsamaBinLaden.htm   (974 words)

  
 Bin Laden half-brother breaks silence - Dateline NBC - MSNBC.com
Mohammed was an illiterate bricklayer with an innate genius for engineering, who became chief road builder to the oil rich king of Saudi Arabia.
The family's fortune was secured in 1973, when the king awarded Mohammed's company, now called the Saudi bin Laden Group, one of the biggest construction contracts of all time, rebuilding the holy cities of Mecca and Medina -- a $17 billion  project that is still underway.
Bin Laden: "The minute he started attacking verbally the country, Saudi Arabia, then that changed because we are part of the country.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/5403841   (2561 words)

  
 Worldandnation: The bin Laden business empire
The founder: Mohammed Awad bin Laden emigrated from South Yemen to Saudi Arabia and in 1931 founded a construction company.
One of 20 sons was Osama bin Laden.
The board: Bakr bin Laden and 11 relatives now make up the board of the business, which is called the Saudi Binladin Group.
www.sptimes.com /News/092301/Worldandnation/The_bin_Laden_busines.shtml   (371 words)

  
 frontline: hunting bin laden: who is bin laden?: interview with osama bin laden (in may 1998) | PBS
Or, read the full interview with Bin Laden which starts with questions posed to him by his followers.
With respect to the Western governments that participated in the attack on the land of the two Holy Mosques regarding it as ownerless, and in the siege against the Muslim people of Iraq, we have nothing new to add to the previous message.
bin Laden, you have issued a fatwah calling on Muslims to kill Americans where they can, when they can.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/binladen/who/interview.html   (4345 words)

  
 Who Is Osama bin Laden   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Bin Laden was born in Saudi Arabia around 1957 to a family of Yemeni
Mohammed bin Laden took many wives and fathered about 50 children.
Bin Laden was expelled from Saudi Arabia in 1991 because of his
www.mwarrior.com /knowyourenemy.htm   (690 words)

  
 DEBKAfile - Riyadh Attack Was First Al Qaeda Attempt on Life of Saudi Royal – Prince Mohammed bin Nayef
This was the first attempt by Osama bin Laden’s organization to assassinate a member of the Saudi royal family.
Mohammed was on his way to a nocturnal conference with Saudi security and intelligence chiefs on the next stage of the crackdown on terrorists.
The third failed attempt to murder Prince Mohammed also drew on the contents of the most secret contingency plans to send senior royals and their families to secure shelters if their lives were threatened.
www.debka.com /article.php?aid=958   (1005 words)

  
 Osama bin Laden
Indeed it was at this time that America recruited and trained Osama bin Laden and financed the infiltration of Saudi militants to fight the Soviet Union there.
Without wishing to offend anyone dealing with the difficult energies of a Mars/Pluto conjunction, for a terrorist like bin Laden, this shows a ruthless implacability, and the close conjunction between Pluto and Mercury could show the use of transport and the post as a means of destruction.
Early in bin Laden's life, the two outer planets Pluto and Neptune made the transition from Leo and Libra to Virgo and Scorpio respectively.
www.world-of-wisdom.com /04_articles/2001/09_osama.htm   (1767 words)

  
 FBI Operative Ali Mohammed Writes Bin Laden Terrorist Manual [Free Republic]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Ali Mohammed most likely helped Bin Laden write the terrorist manual referred to in this article using US intelligence manuals and information Ali gained while he served as a US Green Beret, in the CIA, and as an FBI informant and operative from 1992 to 1996 out of Sacramento, California.
It is strongly believed that Ali helped Bin Laden's secretary and a group of terrorists out of a Dallas, Texas cell assist McVeigh in the Oklahoma City bombing.
These known terrorists allowed to roam included Ali Mohammed, the FBI operative, as well as other terrorists that the FBI used to help "populate" known terrorists cells in Arlington, Va, Los Angeles, and Dallas, Texas according to testimony given by Louis Freeh to the Congress in May 1995 in support of the anti-terrorism bill.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a39c63e814ce8.htm   (1127 words)

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