by Jean Sasson
storm at, 203–4
Taliban to, 174–75
view of, 160
water at, 186
toys
for bin Laden, Mohammed, 67
Osama’s fatherhood v., 43, 44, 67, 96
training camps. See also specific training camps
attack on, 238–39
bin Laden sons’ visits to, 195–97, 214, 305
training center, attack on, 309–10
al-Turabi, Hassan, 135
Turkey
attacks in, 317
Osama/Naji in, 9
Um Kulthum, 199–200
United States (U.S.). See also Bush, George W.; Clinton, Bill Abdel Rahman to, 131
Black Hawk helicopter attack and, 145, 316
CIA, 310
civilians and, 239, 255
heroin for, 158
indictment from, 311
intelligence of, 310, 311
Israel v., 177, 193–94
Khobar Towers building attack on, 309, 316
lectures against, 195
Mogadishu attack on, 308
for Mujahideen, 73, 77
Muslims and, 193–94
9/11 retaliation by, 285–86, 313
Osama against, 145, 176–77, 194
Palestinians v., 193–94
political/militant activities against, 145, 195
royal family and, 82–83
Saudi Arabia’s contamination by, 83, 84, 85, 306, 307, 309
Saudi Arabia’s defense from, 82–83
Somalia against, 145
veil/abaaya in, 26–27
visit to, 25–27, 302
women soldiers from, 84
al-Zawahari in, 130
U.S. embassies’ attacks celebration for, 237
indictments after, 311
news of, 236–37, 311, 316
preparation for, 236
retaliation for, 237–41, 311
safe houses after, 239–40, 311
USS Cole attack, 277–78
al-Qaeda and, 277–78, 312, 316
al-Uteybi, Juhayman, 303
violence. See also attack(s); Jihad; war against bin Laden sons, 71–72
to civilians, 194, 237
conversation about, 241–43
Haj attack and, 303
against Muslims, 27, 238–39
suicide missions as, 199, 262–63
Wahhabi sect, of Sunni Muslims, 174–75
war. See also Afghanistan
Afghani civil, v. West, 223
carnage of, 221
civil war as, 149, 155
civilians v., 237
companions from, 226–27
dogs’ deaths in, 229–30
front lines in, 216–18, 219–20
Iraq-Iran, 79
mentally challenged child and, 228–29
Omar against, 221, 225, 287–89
professionalism in, 220
Six Day War, 29
tour in, 227–28
weapons of, 125, 139, 208, 210–11, 220, 237
wounded in, 219
war hero. See also Mujahideen
allowances as, 80
al-Madani as, 81–82
Osama as, 73, 74–75, 305, 306
warlords, of Afghanistan, 154–55
water
Osama against, 61–62
at Tora Bora, 186
wealth
education and, 110
wives and, 40
weapons
AK-47s, 125, 139
explosives, 211, 237
grenades, 208, 210–11
tanks, 220
wives. See also specific wives
begging women v., 69
first, 41, 53, 54
of Grandfather bin Laden, 8, 40, 167–69, 278, 291, 301
joke about, 42
Koran on, 49–50
patriarchy and, 56–57
Prophet Mohammed v. Osama, 49
role of, 53
unveiling of, by Grandfather bin Laden, 169
wealth and, 40
women. See also girls; specific women
Afghanistani, clothing for, 153–54
as American soldiers, 84
begging, 69
divorce for, 168
in Jalalabad, 153–54
mahram for, 105
men v., 22, 34
mosques and, 18
Omar and, 57
Osama and, 41
for rada, 105
restrictions for, 21, 22, 34
socializing of, men v., 22
songs by, 199–200
sons v., 45–46
travel for, 104–5
women doctors for, 104
world
changing, 193, 306
Islam for, 193
Muslims’ rulership of, 177
World Trade Center
Abdel Rahman and, 131, 308–9
bombing of, 131, 308–9
9/11 and, 312, 316
Yemen
attack in, 145, 308, 315
Najwa (youth) and, 4
USS Cole attack in, 277–78, 312, 316
Zamzam, 17
al-Zawahiri, Ayman Muhammad, 77
Azzam and, 78, 130
background of, 129–30
care of, 243–44
deference of, 213
escape of, 313
for al-Jihad, 129–30, 144, 308
Omar’s dislike for, 129, 212–13
against raped boy, 132
in U.S., 130
Zohr (midday prayer), 18
Zubair, Abu, 226–27