Hamida al-Attas

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Hamida al-Attas
حميدة العطاس
Born
Alia Ghanem
Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden
  • Mohammed al-Attas
    • ChildrenOsama bin Laden
    Relatives
    (grandson)

    Hamida al-Attas (

    Arabic: عالية غانم;[4] 1934),[5] is the mother of the deceased al-Qaeda leader, Osama bin Laden
    .

    Biography

    Hamida al-Attas came from a

    Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden in Latakia in 1956 and moved to Saudi Arabia with her husband.[2]: 72 [4] She was the tenth wife of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden.[11] Her husband had many wives and he divorced most of them, as having only four wives at once was in accordance with Muslim law.[12] It has been reported that she was a concubine rather than wife of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden.[12] She was more cosmopolitan than Mohammed's first three Saudi wives.[13]

    Osama bin Laden was her only child with Mohammad bin Laden, and they divorced soon after his birth in 1957; Osama was somewhere between the 17th and the 22nd of the 24 sons which Mohammad would sire.[14][15] She often spent summers at her brother Naji's home in Latakia and Osama went with her until he was 17.[4] In 1974, when Osama was 17, he married her brother's daughter, 14-year-old Najwa Ghanem, who had been promised to him.[4]

    Hamida later married Mohammed al-Attas,

    Hadhrami administrator in the fledgling Bin Laden empire, when Osama was four or five;[2]: 73  they had three sons and a daughter[1] including Ahmad Mohammed.[12] Osama took an active part in raising his half siblings.[2]
    : 74 

    It has been reported that, in the spring or summer of 2001, Osama bin Laden placed a phone call to his mother and in a "very brief conversation" told her "that he [will] not be able to call again for a long time," adding that "great events are about to take place." Following the

    Abdullah Azzam.[10]

    See also

    References

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    4. ^ a b c d e Bar'el, Zvi (13 September 2002). "Qaida's Lebanese Hydra". Haaretz. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
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    6. ^ "Taking Out a Terrorist: The Death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi". Anderson Cooper 360° (transcript). 8 June 2006. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
    7. ^ Slackman, Michael (13 November 2001). "Bin Laden's mother tried to stop him, Syrian kin say". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
    8. ^ Reed, Stanley (6 September 2004). "Prelude To Terror". Bloomberg Businessweek. Archived from the original on 5 February 2005. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
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    10. ^ a b Chulov, Martin (2 August 2018). "My son, Osama: the al-Qaida leader's mother speaks for the first time". The Guardian.
    11. ^ a b "Profile: Hamida al-Attas". History Commons. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
    12. ^ a b c "Bin Laden Family Believes Osama Is Alive". CNN Daybreak (transcript). 19 March 2002. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
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