Osama Bin mother Alia Ghanem say about her son:
Osama Bin Laden Mother Alia Ghanemremembers ''good childs''
The mother of al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden has spoken publicly about her son for the first time, seven years on from his 2011death.Alia Ghanem gave an interview to British news the Guardian from the family's home in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.
She told the publication her son had been a shy and"good child"growing up, but was "brainwashed"at university.
The family say they last saw Bin Laden in
1999, two years before the 9/11 attacks, when he was in Afghanistan. By that time he was considered a major global terror suspect, after moving to the country initially to fight the invading soviet forces in the 1980s.
"We were extremely upset. I did not want any of this to happen. Why would he throw it all away like That"
Ms Ghanem told the newspaper-per, when asked how she felt after learning her son had become a jihadist militant
She also said the Muslim Brotherhood
organisation, which her son became involved with while studying, was like a"cult".
Who was Osama Bin Laden?
The long hunt for the al-Qaeda leader
How Bin Laden's W unfolded The Bin Laden family remain one of the most influential families in Saudi Arabia after
gaining vast wealth in construction.
Bin Laden was eventually killed in a compound raidin Abbottabad, Pakistan by US Navy Seals
Bin Laden's father, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, divorced Aba Ghanem three years after Osama's birth, and had more than 50 children in total
After the 9/11 attacks, the family say they were interrogated by the Saudi government who then limited their travel and movement
Journalist Martin Chulov writes in the piece that he believed the gulf kingdom granted him permission to speak to Ms Ghanem because senior officials hoped it would demonstrate that the former al Qaeda leader was an outcast and not a state agent, as some have alleged.
Two of Bin Laden's brothers, Hassan and
Ahmad, were also present for the Guardian interview and described their shock at learning of his involvement in the 9/11 attacks.
"From the youngest to the eldest, we all felt ashamed of him. We knew all of us were going to face horrible consequences. Our family abroad all came back to Saudi,"
Ahmad told the newspaper. He also said his mother remains"in denial"
about Bin Laden 17 years on from the 9/11 attacks, instead blaming the people around
him.
Timeline
1957 : Born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His
parents separate and his father dies in
a helicopter crash in 1969. He studies in
Jeddah, before going to fight Soviet forces in Afghanistan, where he forms his own armed brigade.
1988 : Founds al-Qaeda, meaning"the base"1989 Returns to Saudi Arabia after Soviets withdraw. He is expelled and he and his followers go to Sudan, then later return to Afghanistan
1993 : His family expels him as share holder in the family businesses, and the Saudi government revokes his citizenship.
1996 : Declares war on US forces
1998 : Issues a joint fatwa with other ls-
lamists espousing a religious authorisation for indiscriminate killing of Americans and Jews around the world. Deadly attacks in US embassies in Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are blamed on al-Qaeda. The US authorises
air strikes on his compound in Afghanistan. He begins to move around more frequently to stay safe
2000 : Seventeen US sailors are killed in
an attack on the USS Cole destroyer in a
Yemeni port
2001 : Four US commercial air liners are
hijacked by 19 followers. Two destroy
New York's World Trade Centre and a third hits the Pentagon. The fourth crashes in Pennsylvania killing everyone on board. Nearly 3, 000 civilians are killed. George W Bush says Bin Laden is"wanted dead or alive"and launches attacks on Afghanistan
2002-2010 : thought to have escaped
into Pakistan in late 200'. Footage And
recordings of Bin Laden are intermittently released by al-Qaeda throughout the decade as US continues hunting him
2011 : US Naw Seals raid his compound
in the Pakistani town of Abbottabad and
shoot him dead. Four other people in the compound are also killed. Bin Laden is
buried at sea after an Islamic funeral on a US aircraft carrier
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