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

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The New York Times calls GROWING UP BIN LADEN: "The most complete account available of the terrorist's immediate family." (May 15, 2011)

A true story that few ever believed would come to light, GROWING UP BIN LADEN uncovers startling revelations and hidden secrets carefully guarded by the most wanted terrorist of our lifetime, Osama bin Laden.

"I was not always the wife of Osama bin Laden. Once I was an innocent child dreaming little girl dreams..."

Thus begins this powerful story as Najwa bin Laden, who married her cousin Osama bin Laden at the age of 15 to become his first wife and the mother to eleven of his children, and her son, Omar bin Laden, the fourth-born son of Osama bin Laden. Together, mother and son tell an extraordinarily powerful story of a man hated by so many, yet both loved and feared by his family, with spine-tingling details about the life and times of the man they knew as a husband and father, including: - Osama's disapproval of modern conveniences, including electricity and medicine- His plan to toughen up his sons by taking them into the desert without food or water- Transporting his wives and children to the rough terrain of Sudan, where he claimed to be preparing them for attacks from western powers, commanding them to dig holes, and to sleep in those holes, allowing nothing more than sand and twigs for cover- Omar's horror at the rape and murder of a boy his own age, by members of a jihadist group living among them in the Sudan. - What happened in the bin Laden home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on the morning of September 11, 2001, and Omar's surprise phone call with his mother, who escaped from Afghanistan only two days before the shattering events that killed so many innocent people
Since September 11, 2001, journalists have struggled to uncover carefully guarded information about Osama's private life. Until now, Osama Bin Laden's family members have not cooperated with any writers or journalists. Now, with unprecedented access and insight, Jean Sasson, author of the bestselling Princess: A True Story Behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia, takes us inside the secret world of Osama bin Laden.

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Omar and Zaina Binladin
November 3, 2023
The book growing up bin laden, a title that omar binladin never really liked was actually dictated to his wife zaina, omar and zaina passed the manuscript to Mrs sasson who added flowers, trees, blue skies, cut the manuscript from 2000 pages to 360ish and sold it to over 40 different countries and it was translated into 30 different languages. Omar and zaina live very happily together and are both acclaimed artists
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A Google user
October 10, 2010
Only read this book if you want to read fiction. Because 'Growing Up Bin Laden' is one of Jean Sassons hoax-books. Osam'a bin Laden's son Omar, and his mother Najwa, had in reality very little, if anything to do with. The book-deal went ahead thank's to Omar's English Grandmother-wife Felix and Jean Sasson. Those shameless females milked Omar bin Laden-name for all it's worth and then some. He was their meal-ticket. Omar has since cottoned on. He divorced Felix and want's nothing more to do with either of those females. After the Growing Up Bin Laden book was published, Omar was asked by Journalists about some stories in the book which he is supposed to have told to Jean Sasson which left him in shock, because he found out the hard way that there was massive nasty stuff written about his father Osama which he had never ever said. Sasson wrote a lot of lies about Osama bin Laden while hiding behind a clueless Omar. It is a fact: All of Jean Sasson's book's are peppert with heaps of her own made up lies. This womans negative, nasty imagination is working overtime and she gets paid for it. Hey, is'nt that grand! Sasson's deceit started with THE RAPE OF KUWAIT, followed by PRINCESS and so on. Her Princess and Daughters of Arabia books were written from an Austrian ladies unpublished autobiography about her life in Kuwait, Arabia. Sasson made use of that over 500 page manuescript without permission of the rightful owner and used it to write the Princess-books. Where I come from we call it theft. . For all the reasons mentioned above, don't buy any of Jean Sasson's books. If you have to, better to go to a Library.
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A Google user
July 28, 2010
Couldn't put it down. What a woman his wife is. The more horrible and extreme Osama became the more I had respect for his wife and what she had to put up with while never complaining. I guarantee if my husband wanted to drag me and my small children into some hole out in the desert somewhere I wouldn't let the door hit him on his backside.
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About the author

JEAN SASSON, a New York Times bestselling author, lived in the Middle East for 12 years and has traveled extensively in the area for 30 years. She lives in the Southern USA.

NAJWA BIN LADEN, who married her cousin Osama bin Laden at the age of 15, is his first wife and the mother to seven of his sons and four of his daughters. She currently lives with three of her eleven children in the Middle East.

OMAR BIN LADEN, the fourth son of Osama bin Laden, has publicly called for his father to "change his ways." Both Omar and his mother left Afghanistan before September 11, 2001, and neither has been in contact with Osama bin Laden since.

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