Osama bin Laden was Public Enemy No. 1 and the most wanted man in the world. His death raises questions about his personal life and his six marriages. Here is information on five women and a canceled wedding
News Updates :.
27/04/2012: After being sentenced to 45 days in prison by a Pakistani court for illegally entering Pakistan, the family of Osama bin Laden was deported from Pakistan to Saudi ArabiaAsma Alsharif :. "Apart from the three widows, the deportees included seven children and four grandchildren."
Source: Asma Alsharif. "Osama bin Laden family deported to Saudi Arabia." Reuters via HuffingtonPost.com. . 27/04/2012
Born:
Osama bin Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden: 10. March 1957 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Mort:
Osama bin Laden May 1, 2011 in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Osama bin Laden was 54 when he was killed by US special forces in a covert operation. Bin Laden was buried at sea from North Arabia
Occupation:
Osama bin Laden: Terrorist ..Sixth woman - Amal al-Sadah aka Amal Ahmed Abdulfattah:
born Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah aka Amal Ahmed al-Sadah aka Amal Ahmed Abdullfattah born about. 1982 Yemen
How Osama and Amal Met :. His brother, who fought along side bin Laden in Afghanistan, suggested Osama, who was thirty years older than Amal, should marry. Amal was given to Osama as a gift when she was 15. Time.com says his Yemeni family received $ 5,000 for the arranged marriage
Wedding Date :.
bin Laden and Amal married in 00 when she was 18Children :. Amal and Osama are believed to have had a daughter, Safiyah
Role in May 2011 Raid :. Amal Ahmed al-Sadah was not used as a human shield when US special forces conducted a raid on the secret bin Laden compound in Abbottabad. According to press reports, Amal made a threatening gesture towards the US Seals and was wounded in the assault. On 3 May 2011, she was in Pakistani detention
Daily Mail Reporter :. "After the arranged marriage - made to strengthen political ties to bin Laden in Yemen - however, the family of Amal was abandoned to its fate, too scared to talk to her in public"
Source :. Daily Mail Reporter. "the family of the youngest wife of Osama talk." DailyMail.co.uk. . 5/09/2011
Brian Ross: "Bin Laden's wife rushed the assaulter US and was wounded in the leg, but not killed," said the White House Jay Carney ... Amal Ahmed has been said the youngest, the prettiest and favorite. In fact, he had divorced one of his older women to marry and to comply with Islamic law, which limits the number of wives to four "
Source :. Brian Ross." Young woman of Osama bin Laden, Injured in Raid identified. "ABCNews.go.com 03/05/2011
Hala Jaber: .." The wedding ceremony in the grounds of a compound was conducted by Mustafa Abu al-Yazid and al CFO -Qaeda, better known as Sheikh Saeed al-Masri. Sunni strict accordance with Islamic traditions, it was a matter reserved for men. The bride is deemed to have consented to the marriage by traveling to Afghanistan, so that his presence was not required. The men celebrated with recitals of poetry and song, freshly slaughtered lambs and large dishes of rice. Women, including Amal, held their own more modest party in a neighboring house "
Source :. Hala Jaber" .... Officer to find the fifth wife of Osama bin Laden in Yemen "TimesOnLine.com 24 / 01/2010
Lawrence Wright: "Although marriage [to Amal al-Sadah] seems to have been a political arrangement between bin Laden and a major Yemeni tribe, to stimulate the recruitment of al-Qaeda in Yemen, d other bin Laden's wives were angry, and even his mother rebuked "
Source :. Lawrence Wright the Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda ... and the road to 9/11 06. pg 338.
Fifth Woman - canceled:
bin Laden family does not like to discuss the cancellation of Osama bin Laden in 1994. he was married to Khartoum, but the wedding was canceled before it could be consumed within forty hours-eight after marriage
fourth Wife - Siham Sabar aka Um Khalid aka Umm Khalid :.
born: Siham Sabar was born in Medina, Saudi Arabia.
wedding date: Osama bin Laden and Siham Sabar married in 1987.
children :. Siham and Osama have four children
Siham Occupation: Master of Arabic grammar.
Residence: Siham is one of the widows of Osama bin Laden found living in the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan
Third wife - Khairiah Sabar aka Um Hamza aka Umm Hamza :.
Born :. Khairiah Sabar was to Jeddah (Jeddah), Saudi Arabia
Wedding Date :. Khairiah and Osama were married in 1985. Their marriage was arranged by Osama's first wife Najwa
Children :. Osama Khairiah and would have had a son
Khairiah of occupation: has a PhD and is a teacher of deaf children and a child psychologist
Residence: .. Khairiah is one of widows of Osama bin Laden found living in the compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan
Second Female - Khadijah Sharif aka Um Ali alias Umm Ali :.
Born: About nine years older than Osama bin Laden, Khadijah Sharif was born in 1948 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Wedding Date: Khadijah Sharif and Osama bin Laden is married in 1983.
children :. Osama and Khadijah have three children
Khadijah Occupation :. Master girls
divorce: Khadijah divorced Osama between 1993 and 1996.
Najwa: "She was a little older than Osama, well educated, and a teacher of girls at a school in Jeddah"
. Source: Omar bin Laden, Najwa bin Laden Zoom. bin Laden's wife and son of Osama Take Us Inside their Secret World 09. pg 50.
First wife -.. Najwa Ghanem Ibrahim aka Um Abdullah aka Umm Abdullah :.
born: Najwa Ghanem was born in 1958 in Latakia, Syria
Wedding Date: Osama and Najwa, his cousin, were married in 1974 in the house of his parents in Syria . Although Time.com reports that when they married Najwa was 13 and bin Laden was 19, Najwa reports in his book (page 292) she was 15 and Osama was 17 when they married
children :. Najwa is reportedly the mother of 11 children Osama
separation :. Osama Najwa left shortly before the 9/11/01 attacks. Osama bin Laden and Najwa were still parted at the time of his death. Najwa lives in Syria
Najwa :. "Few women dance with joy when they contemplate sharing their husband with other women"
Source :. Niall Firth. "Living with Osama bin Laden: First wife tells the husband offers to train his son as suicide bombers." DailyMail.co.uk. . 10/13/09
Najwa: "The day of my wedding, I am young in years but mature and some in my thoughts, I was not worried.".
Source: Omar bin Laden, Najwa bin Officer. Growing Up Bin Laden. The wife and son of Osama Take Us Inside Their Secret World 09. pg. 13.
Omar bin Laden: "The position of the first wife is prestigious in my culture, and that prestige is tripled when the first wife is a cousin and mother of a first son Rarely a Muslim man . divorcing a woman who is a cousin and mother of the eldest son My parents were related by blood, marriage and parenthood "
Source: .. Omar bin Laden, Najwa bin Laden. Growing Up Bin Laden. The wife and son of Osama Take Us Inside Their Secret World 09. pg. 41.
Peter Bergen: "Carmen Bin Ladin, who knew in the 1970s, described Najwa as" gentle, docile, very religious and constantly pregnant. ' "
Source: Peter Bergen. The Osama bin Laden I Know :. An Oral History of al Qaeda leader 06. pg. 402.
Lawrence Wright :. "After eleven children and twenty-seven years of marriage, she [Najwa] decided to return to Syria, taking her daughters and her retarded son, Abdul Rahman, with her the man she had married was not a mujahid or an international terrorist, he was a wealthy Saudi teenager the life she could have waited for the wife of bin Laden was one of wealth, travel, society ;. easy existence is more comfortable with the procession regular officers, a beach house, a yacht, perhaps an apartment in Paris. This was the minimum. instead of that, she had lived a life on the run, private, often in poverty. she had sacrificed so much but now it was free "
. Source: Lawrence Wright. The Looming Tower :. Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11 06. pg. 338.
Quotes on marriages of Osama bin Laden:
Tim McGirk: "During his last days in Abbottabad, Pakistan, bin Laden had to contend with three wives and 17 noisy children under one roof ... under Islam, polygamy is allowed, but only if the husband is able to treat all his wives also. Islamic law also provides that a man can have four wives at a time ... judging from the plans of the Abbottabad compound, bin Laden tried to keep his three families separate but equal each woman and her children were awarded their own soil, and bin Laden would spend time with each group "
Source: .. Tim McGirk. " Big Love in Abbottabad. How Osama bin Laden Kept Three Wives Under One Roof" Time.com. 12/05/2011.
"In the account of the report, Ms. Fateh said she agreed to marry bin Laden in 00 because" she had a desire of marrying a mujahid. "She flew into Karachi in July this year and , months later crossed into Afghanistan to join bin Laden and two other women to his base on a farm outside Kandahar "
Source :. Declan Walsh." in hiding, bin Laden had four children and five houses. "NYTimes.com. 29/03/2012.
" Osama bin Laden spent his last days as a henpecked husband. The leader of Al Qaeda managed to hide from Americans for a decade following 9/11 ... but apparently could not escape. All his wives at war three lived with him in his three-storey Pakistani hideout with eight children and five grandchildren "
Source :. Mail Foreign Service." Three is a crowd! How many wives of Osama bin Laden fought favoritism and betrayal inside Pakistani compound "DailyMail.co.uk 3/08/2012
Daily Mail Reporter:..." Osama bin Laden spent his last weeks in a house divided by its three suspicious women who jealously vied diseases of the head of al Qaeda ... Problem arises when his eldest wife, Khairiah Saber Saudi origin, introduced in early 2011 and moved into the bedroom on the floor below older women and younger people do not get on top of perceived favoritism of Amal bin Laden "
Source:" .. a crowd of three: three women bin Laden jealous quarrel on favoritism and betrayal. " DailyMail.co.uk. . 07/03/2012
Carlotta Gall of the cloistered life of bin Laden's wives: "In line with the strict Islamic code followed by bin Laden, they never met to men outside their immediate families are not informed bin Laden of his entire business or operational relationships ... in responses to questions sent by email sent by Ms Sasson, an American writer, Omar bin Laden said his father kept his women, and often his children, sequestered in the house. his mother Najwa sneak into the garden when Osama bin Laden was away, warning children not to tell their father, she had dared to step outside of the house, children, too, rarely were allowed to go outside "
Source: .. Carlotta Gall. "US still expects access to Bin Laden Widows." NYTimes.com. . 10/05/2011
Manal Omar: "fulfilling the desires of the male leader or husband in the family is a very important task for women [in Islam] ... Women are clearly attracted by the message Osama and to have the opportunity to be in his family would be attractive even for some of the educated women "
Source :. Brian Ross, Avni Patel, Desiree Adib. "Matchmaker of Osama bin Laden: Real Housewives of Abbottabad." ABCNews.go.com. . 10/05/2011
Brian Ross: "When bin Laden moved to his mansion in Abbottabad, he was left alone with Amal Ahmed, he had divorced one of his other wives, and three others had moved to Syria "
Source :. Brian Ross. "Young Woman of Osama Bin Laden Raid injured identified." ABCNews.go.com. . 03/05/2011
Osama bin Laden on the management of multiple marriages :. "We agree, like walking two is like a bicycle: it is fast but a little unstable Three is a tricycle, stable but slow. .! And when we get to four, ah This is the perfect now, you can move everyone "
. Source:! Lawrence Wright The Looming Tower :. Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11. . 06. pg 82.
AS, one of the wives of Osama bin Laden ... "We do not live in a house Each wife lived in her own house there were two women Kandahar, each with its own home the third wife had a house in Kabul, and the fourth in the Tora Bora mountains "
Source :. Khalid Nasr." he rarely eats meat, but he likes to go to the hunting. "Guardian.co.uk. 15/03/02.