Abdallah bin Laden is the son of Osama bin Laden and his wife Najwa. He is the founder and runs his own business Fame Advertising in Jeddah. As one of the sons who did not disown his father, he is closely watched by the authorities and has been restricted from traveling outside Saudi Arabia since 1996. He is mostly seen at the Intercontinental Hotel in Jeddah with his father’s stepbrother and the chairman of Saudi Binladin Group chairman Bakr bin Laden.
Abdallah bin Laden Family Life
Abdallah bin Laden was born in 1976 to Osama bin Laden and his first wife Najwa. In 2015, he requested the United States embassy in Saudi Arabia for the death certificate of his father and it was said that no was issued for Osama bin Laden.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
Abdallah bin Laden is the son of Osama bin Laden, who was an Islamist dissident and militant leader and leader of al Qaeda. He founded al Qaeda in 1988 after his brother Salem died. He participated in the Afghan jihad against the Soviet Union while supporting the Bosnian mujahideen in the Yugoslav wars. He started encouraging attacks on the US in 1996 and started with the attacks in September 2001 declaring holy war. He had bombed the US embassy in East Africa in 1998 and was put on the FBI’s Most Wanted Terrorist list.
In September 2001, bin Laden worked with hijackers, sent missiles to commercial airplanes, and killed around 3,000 people. The tragedy fueled war with the Pentagon, the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the formation of the ISIS terrorist group. The al Qaeda wives are seen in the documentary to be living a difficult life without access to basic life necessities. The al Qaeda leaders needed them to give birth to their heirs and prepare food for them.
Osama bin Laden came from a large family with over 50 siblings, five wives, and two dozen children. His father Mohammed died in a fatal plane crash in 1967 in Asir, Saudi Arabia. His brother Salem took over but died in 1988 after p he crushed his plane. In 2015, his stepmother, sister, and brother-in-law exploded in a jet in the UK while coming from a wedding. His favorite son Hamza bin Laden took after him and married the daughter of the highest-ranking hijacker in the 9/11 terror attacks.
After his death, his family has been going through hardships for over a decade as fugitives seeking shelter in deserts, caves, and mountains. His second family generation doesn’t speak Arabic and speaks local dialects from Pakistan and Afghanistan. He married off his daughters to Saudi or Gulf nations as per the traditions in the Gulf. The daughter Fatima was married off to the Kuwait Suleiman Bughith at the age of 12, Khadija married at the age of 11 and the rest of the daughters Sumaya, Iman, and Mariam fled to the Saudi Embassy.
His sons married to strengthen his alliances with Egyptian extremist groups and his colleagues. His son Muhammad married the daughter of Abu Hafs al Masri. Hamza married a family friend from Sudan, Saad married Abu Muhammad’s daughter and Othman married Saif al Adil’s daughter. Osama bin Laden was killed at his compound in Abbottabad by the US special operations forces and buried in the Arabian Sea.
