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Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

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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

 

 

 


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