Bin Laden family
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The bin Laden family, also spelled bin Ladin, is a wealthy Saudi Arabian family intimately connected with the innermost circles of the Saudi royal family. It is the namesake and controlling shareholde
Office building of the Saudi Binladin Group in Saudi Arabia
Osama bin Laden
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Osama bin Muhammad bin Awad bin Laden was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda from 1988 until his killing in 2011. A Salafi jihadist, bin Laden worked to establish a pan-Islamist caliphate
Bin Laden family
…construction firm. Following the September 11 attacks in 2001, the family became the subject of media attention and scrutiny due to the activities of Osama bin Laden, the former head of al-Qaeda; they had publicly disowned him in 1994. The family traces its origins to Awad bin Laden from the village of al-Rubat, in…
Bin Laden, c. 1997–1998
Muhammad bin Ladin, Osama's father
Al-Aqsa in East Jerusalem