Osama bin Laden’s father and brother both died in air crashes, a fate which appears to have befallen more members of the super-wealthy Saudi clan
The bin Ladens of Saudi Arabia are both very numerous and very wealthy. They have also been hit by tragic air accidents before .
Osama bin Laden, the leader of al-Qaida until his death in 2011, was one of more than 50 children of the clan’s patriarch, Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden who had came to Saudi Arabia n the early 1930s from Yemen’s Hadramawt region to work on construction sites.
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