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Mohammad bin Osama bin Laden (born 1983), the son of Osama and Najwa, married the daughter of al-Qaeda leader Mohammed Atef in January 2001, at Kandahar, Afghanistan, with footage broadcast by Al-Jazeera, where three of Osama's step-siblings and Osama's mother were in attendance.
He was a son of Osama bin Laden. On 25 July 2019, it was claimed by the American media that he was killed by a U.S. airstrike on the Afghanistan–Pakistan border . In 2024, unconfirmed media reports claimed that he was still alive and a senior leader of al-Qaeda.
Sep 14, 2019 · WASHINGTON — The White House announced Saturday that Hamza bin Laden , the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, was...
Sep 14, 2019 · WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House announced Saturday that Hamza bin Laden, the son of the late al-Qaida leader who had become an increasingly prominent figure in the terrorist organization, was killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.
- Bin Laden Chose to Hide in Plain Sight
- He Had The Compound Custom-Built
- It's Unclear How Many People Lived There
- They Lived in Extreme Isolation and Self-Sufficiency
- Their Lives Were Austere, with Western Touches
- Bin Laden Kept Confined to A Small Space
- They Used Tricks to Evade Local Authorities
- Bin Laden's Couriers Wanted Out
After 9/11, the bin Laden family spent several years on the run, moving from one sympathetic Pakistani locale to another—including the frontier city of Peshawar and the rural Swat Valley, among others. When his supporters decided it was time for the family to settle, they chose Abbottabad, which bin Laden had visited and liked. In 2004, his trusted...
“Arshad” hired a local architectural firm to draw up plans for a large, two-story building on the premises—with very specific criteria. On the ground floor, the new villa was designed with four bedrooms and three bathrooms, as well as a kitchen; the second floor had another four bedrooms and four bathrooms. A third floor was added later, write Levy...
The compound came to be known to locals as the Waziristan Haveli, or Waziristan House/Mansion, due to the Waziri accents of “Arshad” and his brother, Ibrahim. Both men—al Qaeda stalwarts who would serve as bin Laden’s primary couriers, caretakers, aides and buffers to the outside world, moved in first, together with their families. By the end of 20...
Life in the Abbottabad hideout was designed to be as self-contained and self-sufficient as possible, to minimize contact with the outside world. The compound lacked telephone or Internet service—too easy to track—but did have satellite dishes allowing residents to watch the old TVs later found there. The residents burned their garbage rather than p...
The compound’s inhabitants lived frugally, going without air conditioning in the hot summers and sleeping on foam mattresses. Bin Laden’s wardrobe included three Pakistani-style outfits for summer and another three for winter, and a single sweater. But when the al-Kuwaiti brothers headed to the local bazaars, they would stock up not just on naan br...
Two of the rooms on the upper floors became bin Laden’s media center. On the back of a door, he hung the thobe (an Arab man’s robe) he donned when filming videos to be distributed to followers. A snub-nosed Kalashnikov, a memento from his days fighting Russian invaders in Afghanistan, rested on a shelf above the door. Yellow flowered curtains scree...
The al-Kuwaiti brothers disguised how many people lived in the compound by ensuring that no fewer than four separate electric meters were installed. Still, a Pakistani board of inquiry, whose report was later obtained by Al Jazeera, concluded that bin Laden “was extremely fortunate to not run into anyone committed to doing his job honestly, or ther...
Even as the Americans prepared to launch their attack on the compound, relationships were breaking down inside its walls. Exhausted by meeting the needs of a fluctuating but steadily expanding number of confined bin Laden family members and those of their own growing families, the al-Kuwaiti brothers gave the al Qaeda chief an ultimatum. They would...
In the main building, SEALs killed the second courier and his wife on the first floor and bin Laden’s son, Khalid, who was armed, on the second-floor landing. They killed Osama bin Laden in his third-floor bedroom, where he was found with at least one weapon nearby.
Osama bin Laden was killed in the raid and initial versions said three other men and a woman were killed as well: bin Laden's adult son Khalid, [91] [92] bin Laden's courier Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, al-Kuwaiti's brother Abrar, and Abrar's wife Bushra.
