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The bin Laden family (Arabic: عائلة بن لادن, romanized: bin Lādin), also spelled bin Ladin, is a wealthy family intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family. It is the namesake and controlling shareholder of Saudi Binladin Group, a multinational construction firm.
Osama bin Laden himself was born into an aristocratic family in Saudi Arabia in 1957. His grandfather, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, made billions as a construction magnate, and he maintained a ...
Bin Laden was one of more than 50 children of Muhammad bin Laden, a self-made billionaire who, after immigrating to Saudi Arabia from Yemen as a labourer, rose to direct major construction projects for the Saudi royal family.
The Bin Laden family made $5 billion in the construction industry, of which Osama later inherited around $25–30 million. [ 18 ] Bin Laden was raised as a devout Sunni Muslim. [ 19 ]
U.S. special forces killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan in 2011 — but the story of the bin Laden family did not end there.
On July 31, 2022, he was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Kabul, Afghanistan, ending a two decade-long manhunt. In 2019, bin Laden's son, Hamza bin Laden, who had been viewed as a potential ...
Many Americans were probably surprised to learn that relatives of bin Laden had been living in the U.S. for years, that his brother Abdullah practiced law in Boston, that his nephew Faisal...
Three of Osama Bin Laden's five wives and some of his children are being detained in Pakistan. This diagram highlights the al-Qaeda leader's complex family network.
Author Steve Coll details the complicated family history of Osama bin Laden, one of 54 children born to Mohamed bin Laden. The elder bin Laden transformed himself from an illiterate...
F or Omar bin Laden, the fourth eldest of Osama bin Laden’s 20 known children, the awful realization that his father was a terrorist mastermind who was plotting a global conspiracy that would...