Abdallah Osama bin Laden

Abdallah bin Osama bin Muhammad bin 'Awad bin Laden ( _ar. عبدالله بن أسامة بن محمد بن عوض بن لادن; born c. 1976) [Variously spelled Abdullah, bin Ladin, Binladin, etc. However he is not the same person as Osama's half-brother Abdullah bin Laden, born in 1966, or the older Sheikh Abdullah bin Laden, who died in 2002 at age 75.] , or Abdallah Osama bin Laden, is the son of Osama bin Laden and Osama's first wife, Najwa Ghanem.

World Assembly of Muslim Youth

In the 1980s Abdallah was involved in organization the Annandale, Virginia offices of the World Assembly of Muslim Youth, alongside noted American-Muslim political activist Jamal al-Barzinji.

Current activities

Abdallah runs his own firm, called Fame Advertising, in Jeddahcite news
url=http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/articles/051212fa_fact
title=Letter From Jedda, Young Osama, How he learned radicalism, and may have seen America
author=Steve Coll
publisher=The New Yorker
date=2005-12-12
accessdate=2005-12-05] ; he is closely watched by the Saudi government, which has restricted his travel from the kingdom since 1996. Abdallah, who reportedly has never disowned his father,cite news | date = 2001-11-05 | title = The House of bin Laden | url = http://www.newyorker.com/fact/content/?011112fa_FACT3 | publisher = The New Yorker| accessdate = 2006-06-20] is known to dine occasionally with his father's half-brother, Saudi Binladin Group chairman Bakr bin Laden, at the Intercontinental Hotel in Jeddah. [cite web
author = Georg Mascolo and Erich Follath
title = Osama's Road to Riches and Terror
date = 2005-06-06
url = http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,359690,00.html]

See also

* Bin Laden family

References