Bin Laden's Brother Goes To Harvard?
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He has like 100 brothers, its not impossible. Probably goes by a diff last name, I don't think Bin Laden is a proper last name anyway.
Dude, Laden has like 60 brothers or something.
This brother you're referring to said he hasn't been in contact with him in over 10 years...he said the family hates Laden. No big deal.
This brother you're referring to said he hasn't been in contact with him in over 10 years...he said the family hates Laden. No big deal.
i know he's donated mucho dinero to harvard... dunno if he goes there. the rest of the bin laden family doesn't exactly.... support osama. the rest of the family are more loving towards the US. they are often found on lists of top donaters to worthy causes here in the US, and don't appear to hold the same hatred.
Bin Laden is from a very very wealthy family in Saudi Arabia, he left to fight the system to fight what his family stands for. His family has nothing to do with what he does so it realy doesnt matter if is brother is in Harvard or not.
Holy crap. I can't believe it might be true!
How the hell did this guy turn out this way? Did Hitler have brothers or sisters, and if so, what were they like? What about Mussolini, Stalin, etc...?
How the hell did this guy turn out this way? Did Hitler have brothers or sisters, and if so, what were they like? What about Mussolini, Stalin, etc...?
Aves
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From CNN
Report: Bin Laden brother breaks silence
BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- Abdullah Mohammed Binladin, among the youngest of Osama bin Laden's 50 surviving siblings, reiterated his family's condemnation of the man suspected of orchestrating the September 11 attacks on the United States in an interview with The Boston Globe published Sunday.
"Our name is being hijacked," he told the Globe in an interview at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, apartment. "It is a big family. There is a black sheep in every big family."
Abdullah, 35, has spent much of the last decade living in the Boston area earning a master's and doctoral degrees in law from Harvard University.
All 11 other Binladin relatives in the Boston area, Abdullah's nieces and nephews boarded a chartered Saudi jet and left Boston on September 19, he said, adding that most of the family uses the Binladin spelling.
The last time he saw Osama bin Laden was in 1988 at their brother Salem's funeral, he said. By that time, Osama had already strayed far from the family's $5 billion construction empire.
"He had been living most of the time in Afghanistan," said Abdullah. "I personally didn't know him very well."
"It is my understanding that in the 1990s the family repeatedly reached out and made attempts to plead with Osama to moderate his views," Abdullah told the newspaper. "After these attempts failed, there was a reluctant but unanimous consensus that Osama should be disowned."
Abdullah has made Cambridge his home, but since the attacks that left nearly 5,600 dead and wounded some 6,000 more he told the paper he has retreated to his apartment, shunned strangers, avoided using credit cards and given up jogging along the Charles River.
The Binladin connection to Boston began when one of his older brothers came to the city to study civil engineering in the early 1970s. Another brother came in the late 1980s to study at Northeastern University.
The family has given large sums of money to both Harvard and Tufts Universities. They have funded another fellowship program at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies. And every year, the Saudi Binladin Group donates tens of thousands of dollars to the Middle East Policy Council, which helps train educators on how to teach about the Middle East and Islam.
"I totally support my family's statement that expressed condolences and deepest sympathy for the victims of the attack and unequivocally denounced and condemned the attacks and all those behind them," Abdullah told the paper in a separate written statement.
"I also affirm that the Binladin family and the Saudi Binladin Group have no relationship whatsoever with Osama or any of his activities. He shares no legal or beneficial interests with them or their assets or properties, and he is not directly or indirectly funded by them."
Report: Bin Laden brother breaks silence
BOSTON, Massachusetts (Reuters) -- Abdullah Mohammed Binladin, among the youngest of Osama bin Laden's 50 surviving siblings, reiterated his family's condemnation of the man suspected of orchestrating the September 11 attacks on the United States in an interview with The Boston Globe published Sunday.
"Our name is being hijacked," he told the Globe in an interview at his Cambridge, Massachusetts, apartment. "It is a big family. There is a black sheep in every big family."
Abdullah, 35, has spent much of the last decade living in the Boston area earning a master's and doctoral degrees in law from Harvard University.
All 11 other Binladin relatives in the Boston area, Abdullah's nieces and nephews boarded a chartered Saudi jet and left Boston on September 19, he said, adding that most of the family uses the Binladin spelling.
The last time he saw Osama bin Laden was in 1988 at their brother Salem's funeral, he said. By that time, Osama had already strayed far from the family's $5 billion construction empire.
"He had been living most of the time in Afghanistan," said Abdullah. "I personally didn't know him very well."
"It is my understanding that in the 1990s the family repeatedly reached out and made attempts to plead with Osama to moderate his views," Abdullah told the newspaper. "After these attempts failed, there was a reluctant but unanimous consensus that Osama should be disowned."
Abdullah has made Cambridge his home, but since the attacks that left nearly 5,600 dead and wounded some 6,000 more he told the paper he has retreated to his apartment, shunned strangers, avoided using credit cards and given up jogging along the Charles River.
The Binladin connection to Boston began when one of his older brothers came to the city to study civil engineering in the early 1970s. Another brother came in the late 1980s to study at Northeastern University.
The family has given large sums of money to both Harvard and Tufts Universities. They have funded another fellowship program at the Oxford Center for Islamic Studies. And every year, the Saudi Binladin Group donates tens of thousands of dollars to the Middle East Policy Council, which helps train educators on how to teach about the Middle East and Islam.
"I totally support my family's statement that expressed condolences and deepest sympathy for the victims of the attack and unequivocally denounced and condemned the attacks and all those behind them," Abdullah told the paper in a separate written statement.
"I also affirm that the Binladin family and the Saudi Binladin Group have no relationship whatsoever with Osama or any of his activities. He shares no legal or beneficial interests with them or their assets or properties, and he is not directly or indirectly funded by them."
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Osama Bin Laden must be very very smart..... its a shame his mind is going to waste in masterminding evil terrorist attacks.
He is smart, thats the whole damn problem. If he was an idiot he would have been caught a long time ago. Read some of the interviews from Osama and the press. I cant remember which ones, but he doesn't babble like most lunatics
<< Osama Bin Laden must be very very smart..... its a shame his mind is going to waste in masterminding evil terrorist attacks. >>
<< Osama Bin Laden must be very very smart..... its a shame his mind is going to waste in masterminding evil terrorist attacks. >>
He lives right outside of Boston in one of the burbs. His sister lives next door to Nomar Garciaparra.
<< Did Hitler have brothers or sisters, and if so, what were they [like] >>
I believe Hitler may have had a brother, but if I recall correctly he died when Hitler was younger, I could be wrong. Mussolini may have had a few, but they were probably killed. Stalin probably kill his.
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