[2] Date as claimed by President Barack Obama during a televised address the same day. Other press reports indicate that Bin Laden may have been killed up to a week earlier, but these are likely erroneous.
Father: Muhammad Awad bin Laden (construction magnate, d. 1967 plane crash)
Mother: Hamida al-Attas (10th wife, of whom Osama is the only child)
Brother: Salem bin Laden
Wife: Najwah Ghanem (his first cousin, m. 1974)
Son: Abdallah (with Najwah)
Son: Omar (with Najwah)
Son: Saad (b. 1979, with Najwah)
Son: Muhammad (with Najwah)
Son: Hamza (d. 1-May-2011 during raid)
Son: Khalid
Mistress: Kola Boof (Sudanese poet and novelist)
High School: Al-Thager Model School, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia (1968-76)
University: King Abdulaziz University
FBI's Ten Most Wanted Fugitives
al-Qaeda Titular Head
Maktab al-Khidamat Co-Founder
US Big Brother Award Lifetime Menace Award
Declared Holy War Against the United States (1996)
Risk Factors: Fatwa
Rotten Library Page:
Osama bin Laden
Appears on the cover of:
Time, 25-Nov-2002, DETAILS: Why Can't We Catch Him (shown in faint grayscale vignette)