Abdallah Osama bin Laden
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Abdallah bin Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden (Arabic: عبدالله بن أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن; born c. 1976) [1], or Abdallah Osama bin Laden, is the son of Osama bin Laden and Osama's first wife, Najwa Ghanem.
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[edit] World Assembly of Muslim Youth
In the 1980s Abdallah was involved in organization the Annandale, Virginia offices of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, alongside noted American-Muslim political activist Jamal al-Barzinji.
[edit] Current activities
Abdallah runs his own firm, called Fame Advertising, in Jeddah[2]; he is closely watched by the Saudi government, which has restricted his travel from the kingdom since 1996. Abdallah, who reportedly has never disowned his father,[3] is known to dine occasionally with his father's half-brother, Saudi Binladin Group chairman Bakr bin Laden, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Jeddah.[4]
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[edit] References
- ^ Variously spelled Abdullah, bin Ladin, Binladin, etc. However he is not the same person as Osama's half-brother Abdullah bin Laden, born in 1966, or the older Sheikh Abdullah bin Laden, who died in 2002 at age 75.
- ^ Steve Coll. "Letter From Jedda, Young Osama, How he learned radicalism, and may have seen America", The New Yorker, 2005-12-12. Retrieved on 2005-12-05.
- ^ "The House of bin Laden", The New Yorker, 2001-11-05. Retrieved on 2006-06-20.
- ^ Georg Mascolo and Erich Follath (June 6, 2005). Osama's Road to Riches and Terror.
