Growing Up Bin Laden - Jean P. Sasson [192]
birth of, 27, 303
bride for, 230–31, 234
in car accident, 64
character of, 63, 92, 128, 214
fatherhood for, 258
food and, 214, 215
summary on, 294–95
bin Laden, Safia (Amal’s daughter), 294
summary on, 299–300
bin Laden, Salem (Osama’s brother), 20
bin Laden, Siham (fourth wife), 53
daughters for, 74, 76, 104, 307
lineage of, 305
marriage of, 53, 305
in Medina, 68
son for, 74
summary on, 293
bin Laden, Sumaiya (Siham’s daughter)
birth of, 104, 308
summary on, 299
bin Laden, Tiayba Mohammed (Abdullah’s wife), 127–28, 294
bin Laden family
clothing for, 187
cold for, 202–3
conduct for, 107
events with, 20
food for, 186, 215
growth of, at Tora Bora, 202
hunger for, 202–3, 215, 223
loss of, 286
name of, 301
9/11 and, 284–85
Osama’s concerns for, 151
privacy of, 288–89
as unknown, 313
bin Laden sons. See also specific sons
asthma and, 60, 141
attack on, 123–26
bicycles for, 117
Christians v., 118–19
conduct of, 62, 107
confinement of, 43, 66, 127
dogs and, 133–34, 187–89
driver and, 70–71
without emotions’ display, 47, 59
extra classes for, 111
freedom v. father for, 73, 115–17, 213, 255–56
growing food, 96
hatred for, 71–72
hunting by, 98, 101
land for, 258
malaria for, 102
mischief by, 69–71
money for, 116–17
monkey of, 134–35
in mosque collapse, 211–12
Mujahideen and, 112–13
Najwa for, 116–18, 189–90
Osama’s time and, 189–92
Osama’s training for, 99–100, 213–14
pigeons for, 117, 118
political activities and, 77, 213–15
rebellion from, 60, 255–56
respect from, 136, 190
safe houses for, 239–40, 311
Sakhr with, 199
school for, 71–72, 95, 108–11, 127
as signatories, 136
snacks for, 110, 116–17
sports for, 44, 101, 110–11, 120–22
status and, 214–15, 302, 304
suicide missions and, 262–63
swimming for, 101, 120–22
training camps visits for, 195–97, 214, 305
tree houses for, 96, 115
violence against, 71–72
without water, 61–62
weapons training for, 194–95, 210–11
for wives, 69, 258–59
bin Laden women. See also specific bin Laden women
endurance training for, 99–100
joke from, 20
sewing for, 202
simultaneous births for, 75–76
in Sudan, 101
swimming clothing for, 98–99
swimming for, 98–99
weapons training for, 269
The Bin Ladens (Coll), 288–89
bin Ladin, Randa Mohammed (Osama’s half-sister)
advice from, 275
death of, 286
Black Hawk Down, 145
Black Hawk helicopter attack, 145, 316
boys. See also bin Laden sons; sons
girls v., 5–6, 31–32
rape of, 131–32
burqa, 52, 153, 269
Bush, George W., 285
9/11 and, 285
children. See also boys; daughters; girls; Osama (childhood); specific children divorce and, 6–7, 120
explosives and, 237
Fatima and, 268
of Grandfather bin Laden, 40
for Islam, 50, 52, 75
in Kandahar, 228–29
mentally challenged, 228–29
of al-Qaeda, 237
younger, Osama’s fatherhood with, 67
Christians
bin Laden sons v., 118–19
Islam for, 222
Churchill, Winston, xiv
CIA, 310
civil war
in Afghanistan, 149, 155
war with West v., 223
civilians
criminals v., 159
Taliban and, 238
war v., 237
Clinton, Bill, 135, 310
retaliation from, 237–41
USS Cole and, 312
clothing
for Afghanistani women, 153–54
for bin Laden family, 187
modesty in, 6, 15
for Najwa, 15–16, 21, 26–27, 187, 269
of Omar, 31–32, 175
of Osama with Omar, in Afghanistan, 175
for al-Qaeda trainees, 195
swimming, for bin Laden women, 98–99
of Taliban, 175
Coll, Steve, 288–89
culture. See also clothing
birthdays in, 74, 310
crow fable, 23
decisions in, 82
disability in, 159–60
divorce in, 41
girls in, 56–57
marriages in, 12, 56, 259–60
music/poems for, 199–200
patriarchy in, 56–57
poverty v., 178–79
respect and, 45, 136, 213, 230, 241–43, 288
touching in, 94
al-Damazin (Sudan), 97
Danish embassy attack, 317
daughters. See also specific daughters
Najwa and, 61, 95, 270
Osama’s fatherhood for, 67, 101–2
Dawoud, Osama, 121
“Declaration of Jihad,” 310
divorce
for Allia/Grandfather bin Laden, 40, 167–68, 291, 301
bin Laden, Ali, and, 120
children and, 6–7, 120
in culture, 41
for Khadijah, 104, 120, 308
of Osama parents,