Starting his own business in 1930, Mohammed built his fortune as a building contractor for the Saudi royal family during the 1950s. Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (1908–1967) was the family patriarch and founder before World War I, Mohammed, originally poor and uneducated, emigrated from Hadhramaut, on the south coast of Yemen, to the Red Sea port of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, where he began to work as a porter.Osama bin Laden was born the only son of Muhammed bin Laden's eleventh wife, Hamida al-Attas, who was of Syrian origin, making Osama a member of the Syrian group. The Egyptian group employs 40,000 people, most likely the country's largest private foreign investor. The groupings of the bin Laden family, based on the nationalities of the wives, include the most prominent " Saudi group", a " Syrian group", a " Lebanese group," and an " Egyptian group". troops to be based in Saudi Arabia in preparation for the 1991 Gulf War. The Saudi government also stripped Osama of his citizenship for publicly speaking out against the government for permitting U.S. In 1994, the bin Laden family disowned Osama bin Laden, and the Saudi government revoked his passport. When Mohammed bin Laden died in 1967, his son Salem bin Laden took over the family enterprises, until his own accidental death in 1988.Īmerican and European intelligence officials estimate that all the relatives of the family may number as many as 600. Their schoolmates included King Hussein of Jordan, Zaid Al Rifai, the Kashoggi brothers (whose father was one of the king's physicians), Kamal Adham (who ran the General Intelligence Directorate under King Faisal), present-day contractors Mohammed Al Attas, Fahd Shobokshi, Ghassan Sakr, and actor Omar Sharif. Mohammed's sons attended Victoria College, Alexandria, Egypt. Mohammed's special intimacy with the monarchy was inherited by the younger bin Laden generation. Soon, the bin Laden corporate network extended far beyond construction sites. Until his death, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden had exclusive control over restorations at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. He made his initial fortune from exclusive rights to construct all mosques and other religious buildings not only in Saudi Arabia, but as far as Ibn Saud's influence reached. He set up a construction company and came to Abdul Aziz ibn Saud's attention through construction projects, later being awarded contracts for major renovations in Mecca. Mohammed bin Laden was a native of the Shafi'i ( Sunni) Hadhramaut coast in southern Yemen, and emigrated to Saudi Arabia prior to World War I. Awad's son was Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden (died 1967). The family traces its origins to Awad bin Laden from the village of al-Rubat, in the Wadi Doan of the Tarim Valley, Hadramout governorate, Yemen.
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