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May 9, 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...
Najwa Ghanhem (born 1960), a Syrian, also known as Umm Abdullah (mother of Abdullah). Najwa was "promised" in marriage to bin Laden. Bin Laden married her in 1974 in Latakia in northwestern Syria. After the birth of their first son, Abdullah, they moved from his mother's house to a building in the Al-Aziziyah district of Jeddah.
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.
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 Ghanem had every reason to believe she was destined for a cushy life of luxury.
Much of what we know about Osama Bin Laden as a father and husband comes from his first wife, Syrian-born Najwa Ghanem, and his fourth eldest son Omar.
May 10, 2011 · Najwa Ghanem: Bin Laden first married when he was a teenager, wedding Najwa Ghanem, a Syrian cousin who was born in 1958, according to her memoir, Growing Up Bin Laden . They...
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.
