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

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

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Najwa bin Laden

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English

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Published by on December 7, 2010

352 pages

ISBN-10:

0312560877

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ISBN-13:

9780312560874)

From the New York Times bestselling author of Princess: A True Story of Life Behind the Veil in Saudi ArabiaIn their own words, Osama bin Laden’s wife and son tell the astonishing story of the man they knew—or thought they knew—before September 11, 2001.The world knows Osama bin Laden as the most wanted terrorist of our time. But people are not born terrorists, and bin Laden has carefully guarded the details of his private life—until now, when his first wife and fourth-born son...

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lakshita

May 2, 2011, 11:02 am

Growing Up Bin Laden claims to be the memoirs of his first wife, Najwa (mother of 11 of Osama’s children), and her fourth son, Omar, who is married to a British woman. .. More details

Growing Up Bin Laden claims to be the memoirs of his first wife, Najwa (mother of 11 of Osama’s children), and her fourth son, Omar, who is married to a British woman. Their accounts have been woven into an interesting narrative by an American writer, Jean Sasson.

Najwa, who was only 15 when she married him, speaks about many things about Bin Laden – how his father died when he was 10, an overpowering maternal presence, a grudge against the world, high intelligence, and a love for making things difficult.

She speaks he was “the most serious man I’ve ever known” and how for him “everything lively was banned”. There was no music, no television, no toys, scant furniture and, no refrigerator or air-conditioning at home. Najwa’s life was little better than slavery who, was obliged to share her husband with three other wives in strict rotation.

Even before he became a terrorist, Bin Laden’s idea of family fun was to make his wives and children go into the desert and sleep in holes in the sand. He was easily angered and could reach a point of violence instantly. The book reveals: Bin Laden actively sought out hardship. “Life has to be a burden,” he tutored his son. “Life has to be hard.”

Even taking a minute of Bin Laden was difficult. Nobody could address him without his permission (“Dear prince, may I speak?”). For Omar the final straw came when his father gathered his sons in a circle and suggested an exciting new career: becoming suicide bombers!
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