Growing Up Bin Laden - Jean P. Sasson [198]
Soviet Union
in Afghanistan, 27, 30, 177, 303–6
Jihad against, 30
Spain, al-Qaeda attacks in, 317
sports
for bin Laden sons, 44, 101, 110–11, 120–22
brutality in, 110–11
soccer, 44, 81
swimming, 98–99, 101, 120–22
Sudan. See also Khartoum
to Afghanistan, 134–44, 145, 309, 310
bin Laden women in, 101
expulsion from, 136–45, 309, 310
geography of, 87, 93
map of, 87 move to, 87, 91–95, 307
for Mujahideen, 144–45
Osama’s loyalty for, 113, 309
suicide missions, 199, 262–63. See also 9/11
Sunni Muslims, Wahhabi sect, 174–75
swimming
for bin Laden sons, 101, 120–22
for bin Laden women, 98–99
Syria
Baath Party for, xv
facts on, xv
Latakia in, 3–5
map of, xv
Najwa and, xv, 76, 85, 281–83, 312
Taliban. See also Omar, Mullah Mohammed
for Afghanistan, 175–76
civilians and, 238
clothing of, 175
dreams and, 175
executions and, 238
expulsion threat on, 245
Forse tribe v., 238
friendly fire from, 216–17
against Massoud, 155, 216–17, 219
Omar, Mullah, for, 159
Osama with, 219
al-Qaeda v., 174–75
to Tora Bora, 174–75
Tanzania, U.S. embassy attack in, 236–37, 311
teachers, cruelty of, 71–72
terrorism
Massoud against, 155
Omar against, xiii, 215–16, 287
seeds of, xiv
terrorist
Abdel Rahman as, 131
Najwa v., xiii
Omar v., xiii
Al-Thager Model School, 19
al-Thani, Hamad bin Khalifa, 286
thobe, 19
toilets, war and, 227–28
Tora Bora (Afghanistan)
Adel at, 161
bin Laden family’s growth at, 202
daily routine at, 187
hiking in, 173
huts in, 161–62
illness in, 171–72
land gift in, 152–53
move from, 201, 205–6
Najwa’s routine at, 187, 202–3
after 9/11, 313
roads to, 157, 159
storm at, 203–4
Taliban to, 174–75
view of, 160
water at, 186
toys
for bin Laden, Mohammed, 67
Osama’s fatherhood v., 43, 44, 67, 96
training camps. See also specific training camps
attack on, 238–39
bin Laden sons’ visits to, 195–97, 214, 305
training center, attack on, 309–10
al-Turabi, Hassan, 135
Turkey
attacks in, 317
Osama/Naji in, 9
Um Kulthum, 199–200
United States (U.S.). See also Bush, George W.; Clinton, Bill Abdel Rahman to, 131
Black Hawk helicopter attack and, 145, 316
CIA, 310
civilians and, 239, 255
heroin for, 158
indictment from, 311
intelligence of, 310, 311
Israel v., 177, 193–94
Khobar Towers building attack on, 309, 316
lectures against, 195
Mogadishu attack on, 308
for Mujahideen, 73, 77
Muslims and, 193–94
9/11 retaliation by, 285–86, 313
Osama against, 145, 176–77, 194
Palestinians v., 193–94
political/militant activities against, 145, 195
royal family and, 82–83
Saudi Arabia’s contamination by, 83, 84, 85, 306, 307, 309
Saudi Arabia’s defense from, 82–83
Somalia against, 145
veil/abaaya in, 26–27
visit to, 25–27, 302
women soldiers from, 84
al-Zawahari in, 130
U.S. embassies’ attacks celebration for, 237
indictments after, 311
news of, 236–37, 311, 316
preparation for, 236
retaliation for, 237–41, 311
safe houses after, 239–40, 311
USS Cole attack, 277–78
al-Qaeda and, 277–78, 312, 316
al-Uteybi, Juhayman, 303
violence. See also attack(s); Jihad; war against bin Laden sons, 71–72
to civilians, 194, 237
conversation about, 241–43
Haj attack and, 303
against Muslims, 27, 238–39
suicide missions as, 199, 262–63
Wahhabi sect, of Sunni Muslims, 174–75
war. See also Afghanistan
Afghani civil, v. West, 223
carnage of, 221
civil war as, 149, 155
civilians v., 237
companions from, 226–27
dogs’ deaths in, 229–30
front lines in, 216–18, 219–20
Iraq-Iran, 79
mentally challenged child and, 228–29
Omar against, 221, 225, 287–89
professionalism in, 220
Six Day War, 29
tour in, 227–28
weapons of, 125, 139, 208, 210–11, 220, 237
wounded in, 219
war hero. See also Mujahideen
allowances as, 80
al-Madani as, 81–82
Osama as, 73, 74–75, 305, 306
warlords, of Afghanistan, 154–55
water
Osama against, 61–62
at Tora Bora, 186
wealth
education and, 110
wives and, 40
weapons
AK-47s, 125, 139
explosives, 211, 237
grenades, 208, 210–11
tanks, 220
wives. See also specific wives
begging women v., 69
first, 41,