Hamida al-Attas

Hamida al-Attas

Hamida al-Attas, nee A'alia Ghanem,cite web
last =Bar'el
first =Zvi
authorlink =
title =Qaida's Lebanese Hydra
work =
publisher =
date =2002-09-12
year =2002
url =http://www.lebanonwire.com/0209/02091201HZ.asp
accessdate =2007-10-19] (born 1934) is the mother of Osama bin Laden. She came from a Sunni Syrian family of two brothers and another sister, although it has been rumoured that her family are Alawites. [ [http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0606/08/acd.01.html CNN.com - Transcripts ] ] [ [http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/showcase/chi-0111130207nov13,0,3749140.story?coll=chi-newsspecials-hed Bin Laden's mother tried to stop him, Syrian kin say - Family, New York City - chicagotribune.com ] ] [ [http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_36/b3898050_mz005.htm Prelude To Terror ] ] She married Mohammed bin Laden in Latakia in 1956 and moved to Saudi Arabia with her husband. She was the tenth wife of Mohammed bin Laden. [cite web
url=http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/entity.jsp?id=1521846767-3827
title=Profile: Hamida al-Attas
accessdate=2006-08-21] (Her husband had at least 11 wives but divorced many, having only four wives at once, in line with Muslim law.) It has been reported that she was a concubine rather than wife of Mohammed bin Laden. She was more cosmopolitan than Mohammed's first three Wahhabi Saudi wives. [cite web
url=http://archive.salon.com/news/feature/2001/11/01/osama_profile/
title=Salon.com News - The making of Osama bin Laden
publisher=Salon.com
accessdate=2006-08-21]

Osama bin Laden was her only child with Mohammad bin Laden. She often spent summers at her brother Naji's home in Latakia and Osama went with her until he was 17. In 1974, when Osama was 18, he married her brother's daughter, 14-year-old Najwa Ghanem, who had been promised to him.

Hamida later married Mohammed al-Attas and had 4 other children, including Ahmad Mohammed.cite web
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title =Bin Laden Family Believes Osama Is Alive
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publisher =CNN
date =2002-03-19
year =2002
url =http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/19/lad.08.html
accessdate =2007-10-19]

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