Saad bin Laden

Sa'd bin Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden ( _ar. سعد بن أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن; born 1979) better known as Saad bin Laden, one of the sons of Osama bin Laden, continued in his father's footsteps by occupying a position of prominence within Al Qaeda.

Saad was believed to have been heavily responsible for the bombing of a Tunisian synagogue on April 11, 2002, which killed 19. [cite news |title=Bin Laden's son is rising in ranks of terrorism outfit |publisher=The Gazette (Montreal, Quebec) / Associated Press |date=July 30, 2002]

The following year, there were disputed claims of his capture by Pakistan in March, [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2003/03/08/MN126631.DTL Claim of bin Laden sons' capture disputed] , San Francisco Chronicle] though these proved false, and he was implicated in the May 12th suicide bombing in Riyadh, and the Morocco bombing four days later.

Saad accompanied his father on his exile to Sudan from 1991-96, and followed him to Afghanistan after that. He is believed to be married to a woman from Yemen. It's rumoured that Saad bin Laden is currently in Iran, after he appeared in a 2007 programme on Al Arabiya television entitled "The Death Factory".Fact|date=January 2008 Iran has stated that a number of al-Qaeda leaders and members are in their custody, possibly including the son of Osama bin Laden, Saad bin Laden. [ [http://jamestown.org/terrorism/news/article.php?articleid=2370095 Saad bin Laden: The Key to Iranian-al-Qaeda Detente?] ] [Zagorin, Adam and Klein, Joe. " [http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,664967,00.html 9/11 Commission Finds Ties Between al-Qaeda and Iran] ", "Time Magazine", July 16, 2004. Retrieved October 15, 2006.]

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