Growing Up bin Laden: Osama’s Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World PDF
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The author and publisher have provided this e-book to you for your personal use only. You may not make this e-book publicly available in any way. Copyright infringement is against the law. If you believe the copy of this e-book you are reading infringes on the author’s copyright, please notify the publisher at: us.macmillanusa.com/piracy. Contents Title Page Copyright Notice Dedication Acknowledgments Map A Note to the Reader PART I: EARLY DAYS IN SAUDI ARABIA 1. NAJWA: My Youth 2. NAJWA: Married Life JEAN: A Note Regarding Osama bin Laden’s Political Activities 3. NAJWA: Mother of Many Sons 4. OMAR: Born the Son of Osama bin Laden 5. NAJWA: Marriage Surprises 6. OMAR: Growing Up bin Laden 7. OMAR: Moving to Medina 8. NAJWA: Many Children for Osama JEAN: A Note Regarding Osama bin Laden’s Political Activities 9. OMAR: The Nightmare Begins PART II: OUR LIFE IN KHARTOUM 10. NAJWA: To Africa 11. NAJWA: Family Affairs 12. OMAR: Golden Times in Khartoum 13. OMAR: The Scent of Death 14. OMAR: Journey into the Unknown JEAN: A Note Regarding Osama bin Laden’s Political and Militant Activities PART III: AFGHANISTAN 15. OMAR: Retreat to Afghanistan 16. OMAR: Tora Bora Mountain 17. NAJWA: A Far, Far Country 18. OMAR: My Father’s Army 19. NAJWA: Mountain Life 20. OMAR: The Violence Escalates 21. OMAR: Real War 22. OMAR: Jihad Vacation 23. OMAR: True Terror 24. OMAR: The Tightening Noose 25. NAJWA: Young Marriage 26. OMAR: The Beginning of the End 27. NAJWA: To Syria 28. OMAR: Return to Saudi Arabia 29. NAJWA: Leaving Afghanistan Forever 30. OMAR: September 11, 2001 Final Comments by Jean Sasson Postscript Appendix A: Osama bin Laden’s Family: Who Were They? What Happened to Them? Appendix B: Osama bin Laden Chronology Appendix C: Al-Qaeda Chronology: 1988–2008 Index Also by Jean Sasson Praise for Growing Up bin Laden Copyright We dedicate this book to every innocent person who has suffered pain or lost their life in terror attacks throughout the world, and the families who continue to suffer and mourn them. We pray for peace all over the world. Acknowledgments Thank you, Omar, for your sincerity and integrity. Thank you, dear Najwa, for your sweet ways and your oh-so-careful responses to my endlessly intrusive questions at all hours of the day and night. Thank you, Zaina, for your devotion to Omar, and for your encouragement that Omar not give up to make this book happen. Thank you, Liza, my indefatigable literary agent, for believing in this project when others who should have believed did not. I am a most fortunate author to have you represent me. And Frank, my literary attorney, I thank you for being a rock throughout my literary career, for sixteen years now. Havis, I thank you for your generous nature and unfailing help. To Chandler, foreign rights connoisseur, I thank you for falling in love with this story and for presenting it to publishers worldwide with that love in your heart. A special thanks to my editor, Hope. Liza had told me you are one of the great editors, and working with you has proven to me that truth. Laura, you never let me down and were always there to answer my questions with a friendly word. I thank you and the many people at St. Martin’s, who, like me, were pulled into this unique story and enjoyed exercising their skills to bring this important project to full fruit. Thank you, my dear Hikmat, for your diligence in translating a seemingly endless stream of pages from English to Arabic and Arabic to English for my critical researches. And to you too, Amina, for pitching in when it seemed the translation stream threatened to crest and overflow. Evan, you were a pro from the first moment, and your illustrations add so much value to this work. You have my sincere thanks for never complaining despite the many tweaks on the road to perfection. Thanks to those who care deeply about this book, as well as care about the other books I have written or planned projects yet to be written. This includes relatives Aunt Margaret and cousins Bill and Alice. My nephew Greg and his son Alec express sincere care by calling to check on my progress and well-being during the difficult days and nights of writing. Dear friends who graciously support me at every turn cannot go unnamed. I thank Alece, Anita, Danny and Jo, Joanne, Judy and her mom, Eleanor, Lisa, Maria and Bill, Mayada, Peter and Julie, and Vicki and her mom, Jo. And, of course, once again, to my darling Jack, who gives me unconditional love while securing the perimeters of my life. —JEAN SASSON
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