Osama Bin Laden - A Memoir

Osama bin laden was the seventeenth of 54 children of mohammed bin aad. He had worked his way up in the soudi construction business to become one of the wealthiest non royals in the kingdom. Bin laden's share of the family fortune has been estimated at 30 million dollars, and it was expected that he would take up the family business. His father divorced his mother shortly after he was born - but Osama still grew up into a life of luxury few in the kingdom outside the royal family would ever know. After arriving in jedta from his native yemin in 19 30,bin laden took a job as a dock worker, then as a brick