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May 5, 2011 · He was first married at the age of 17 to a cousin, Najwa Ghanem, who was probably two years younger than him. They had 11 children, but after a peripatetic life together Najwa finally left him...
May 6, 2017 · The fort was a barracks for the al-Qaida training camp located at a nearby village, and Osama had grandiosely named it Najm al-Jihad, the Star of the Holy War. Surrounded by adobe huts set into a...
Najwa Ghanem (born 1959), became the first wife of Osama in 1974. A first cousin, she was his mother's niece. She co-authored Growing Up bin Laden with her son Omar. Shaikha bint Laden (born 1960), half-sister of Osama, married Mohammed Jamal Khalifa.
Sep 11, 2023 · DIED: May 2, 2011. BIRTHPLACE: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. SPOUSES: Najwa Ghanhem (1974-2001), Khadijah Sharif (1983-1995), Khairah Saber (1985-2011), Siham Sabar (1987-2011), and Amal Ahmed al-Sada...
Aug 3, 2018 · For years, Ghanem has refused to talk about Osama, as has his wider family – throughout his two-decade reign as al-Qaida leader, a period that saw the strikes on New York and Washington DC, and...
May 12, 2011 · Wife No. 1: Najwa Ghanem, a Syrian and a first cousin, was 15 when she married bin Laden, scarcely two years her elder. Back then, bin Laden was a rich and well-connected Saudi youth, and...
Oct 27, 2009 · Thus begins this powerful story as Najwa bin Laden, who married her cousin Osama bin Laden at the age of 15 to become his first wife and the mother to eleven of his children, and her son, Omar bin Laden, the fourth-born son of Osama bin Laden.
