Growing Up Bin Laden - Jean P. Sasson [197]
about suicide missions, 199, 262–63
surveying military bases, 207
politics
Massoud for, 155
Osama and, 25
population
of Jeddah, 16
of Saudi Arabia, 11
of Syria, xv
poverty
begging women and, 69
culture v., 178–79
food and, 223–24
Najwa’s childhood and, 6
for Osama, 223–24
premarital sex, Muslims against, 178
privacy
of bin Laden family, 288–89
about personal life, xiii, 288
Prophet Mohammed, 22
against dogs, 133, 188
example of, for wives, 49
girls and, 57
insult to, 313
Koran and, 17, 42, 49–50
lineage from, 304, 305
al-Qaeda (al-Qaeda al-Askariya). See also al-Gama’a al-Islamiyya; al-Jihad; Mujahideen; U.S. embassies’ attacks
Algiers attacks and, 317
Bali nightclub attacks and, 316
Black Hawk helicopters attacks and, 316
children of, 237
chronology of, 315–17
code for, 236
Danish embassy attack and, 317
founding of, 78, 306, 315
Ghriba synagogue attack and, 316
Hamza for, 298
Indonesia attacks and, 316, 317
Iraq attacks and, 317
for Islamic Jihad, 193
Israeli plane attack and, 316
Johnson kidnapping/death and, 317
Jordan attacks and, 317
Kenya hotel attack and, 316
Khobar Towers building attack and, 309, 316
Khost training camp for, 240–41
London attack and, 317
membership in, 197–98
Morocco attacks and, 316
9/11 and, 312–13, 316
9/11 U.S. retaliation on, 313
Pearl kidnapping/death and, 316
recruiting for, 144, 178
Saudi Arabia attacks and, 316, 317
Spain attacks and, 317
Taliban v., 174–75
Turkey attacks and, 317
U.S. embassy attacks and, 311, 316
U.S. embassy attacks retaliation on, 311
USS Cole attack and, 277–78, 312, 316
al-Qaeda trainees. See also training camps anti-American lectures for, 195
clothing of, 195
dates about, 196
hugger as, 196–97
hygiene of, 196
jokers as, 197
loyalty oath from, 195
Osama’s drivers among, 197
renaming of, 198
routine of, 195–96
sports for, 196
weapons training of, 196
rada (milk mother), 105
rape
of boys, 131–32
fear of, 132–33
religion. See Christians; Islam; Jews
al-Riyadh Village (Sudan), 94
royal family. See also specific royalty
America and, 82–83
criticisms of, 84–85, 126–27, 306, 307
family farm raid and, 84
loyalty to, 82–83
offers and, 82, 126, 306
Russia, 177. See also Afghanistan; Soviet Union
Russian helicopter attacks, 34–36
God and, 36
Sa’ad. See bin Laden, Sa’ad Sabar, Khairiah. See bin Laden, Khairiah Sabar
Sadat, Anwar, 130, 131, 135–36, 295–96
safe houses, 239–40, 244, 311
Sakhr. See Hamdan, Salim Ahmad Salim
Salim. See Hamdan, Salim Ahmad Salim
Salwa, 29, 302
Sasson, Jean
Najwa and, 289
Najwa/Omar v., xiv
Omar and, 287–90
on political activities, 29–30, 77–78
al-Saud, Abdul Aziz, 292
al-Saud, Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz, 11, 286
al-Saud, Fahd bin abdul Aziz
Hussein v., 80
insult to, 127
letter to, 309
offer from, 254
al-Saud, Naif bin Abdul Aziz
meetings with, 82
restriction from, 85
Saudi Arabia. See also bin Laden, Najwa Ghanem; Jeddah; Mecca; Medina; Osama (young married); political activities
Americans’ contamination of, 83, 84, 85, 306, 307, 309
America’s defense of, 82–83
attacks in, 309–10, 316, 317
book about, 288
disconnection from, 128, 309
facts on, 11
flight from, 85, 92–93, 307
Haj attack in, 303
Hussein’s demands from, 79–80
Johnson kidnapping/death in, 317
Khobar Towers building attack in, 309, 316
map of, 11
al-Qaeda attacks in, 316, 317
respect in, 288
sex segregation in, 109
women soldiers in, 84
Saudi bin Laden Group, 19, 292
Sayaff, Sheik, 155
appearance of, 156
September 11. See 9/11
Services Office. See also al-Qaeda
founding of, 77, 192–93, 304
for housing/training, 192
Shaakr, Abu, 211–12
Shafiq al-Madani, 82
Sharaf, Mohammed, 131, 132–33
Sharif, Khadijah. See bin Laden, Khadijah
sheik. See also specific sheiks
on singing, 200
Siham. See bin Laden, Siham
singing
Osama against, 199
sheik on, 200
soccer, 44, 81
Somalia, 39
against America, 145
Black Hawk helicopter attack in, 145
Mogadishu attack in, 308
sons
political activities and, 34–36
as “prisoners,” 42–43
status from, 24,