He was suspected of standing by many terror attacks, for example the attack against the world trade centers.
He started to work in the Arabic building sector, where he earned a lot.
He was in the leadership in his parents business.
He came from a contractor family, close to the Saudi king family.
Son of Mohamed bin Awad bin Laden.
Number 17 out of his father 52 children.
In 1994 his family took public distance to him, and short time after took the country his nationality from him.
In 1974 when he was 17, he got married with his first wife, Najwa Ghanem. Later he got married with four other women and got divorced from them. He was farther to at least 24 children, and his first wife had born eleven of them.
His strong religious conviction got him to join the local Islamic groups, in 1973. And in 1979 he took to Afghanistan, after the then Soviet Union had invaded the country.
He joined the war in Afghanistan as volunteer, against the soviet occupying power in the 1980's.
Since the 1990's he has been on the USA's top chart of wanted people.
He studied religion, engineering, economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia.
Det er gratis at oprette en konto