books ... Bin Laden

books ... Bin Laden

WASHINGTON .- Father austere, authoritarian husband, a lover of sports cars and is fluent in English: a new facet of Osama Bin Laden is unexpectedly brought to light in the picture he wrote his first wife and one of his 12 children.

In "Growing Up Bin Laden" ("Becoming Bin Laden"), Najwa, the first wife of the brain of the extremist network Al Qaeda, and Omar, her fourth child, tell the transition from a teenager who was pious and metamorphosed into a clever terrorist would do anything to attack the West.

Bin Laden was a teenager when married Najwa, but at 17 years young Saudi woman was already well entrenched belief, as the book goes on sale in late October in the U.S..

Shortly after the 1979 Iranian revolution that brought Ayatollah Khomeini to power, the Bin Laden family traveled to America, Najwa recalls in this book written in collaboration with writer Jean Sasson.

In Los Angeles, Osama met his spiritual guide, Sheikh Abdullah Azzam Palestinian, who was looking for volunteers to join the ranks of the jihad in Afghanistan to fight the Soviets. Bin Laden responded to the call.

When he returned to Saudi Arabia, Bin Laden was welcomed as a hero. But his authoritarian style house began to come to light and his sons were the first to notice the effects. For example forbidden "show too many teeth" to laugh, writes Omar Bin Laden.

Meanwhile, Najwa had to adapt to a polygamous husband and a spartan life.

"My father forbade my mother to turn the air conditioning installed in our building," said Omar. "It also prohibits using the refrigerator."

But this aversion to household appliances Bin Laden did not prevent high-powered cars given away, including at least one gold Mercedes. Also bought a boat with an outboard motor.

"No he loved nothing so much as spend a day running at top speed in the desert, driving one of their cars, says his first wife.

Najwa also reveals that the ideologue of the terrorist attacks of September 11 in Washington and New York ... have inclinations "green" or at least for the cultivation of corn and sunflowers. Another "Osama's favorite activity is to cultivate the land," says the former Mrs. Bin Laden.

But, in this case, the father's passion became an ordeal for the family. In his love of nature, Bin Laden were forced to spend whole nights in the wilderness with nothing but sand as a shelter.

However, Omar is difficult to not admire his father's talent for riding, English and mathematics.

"He was as famous for his mental calculation that people sometimes came home with a calculator to challenge him," recalls Omar about his father, a lover of fruit, including mangos and taking tea with two teaspoons of sugar.




Source: http://www.notirevista.com/2009/10/la-primera-esposa-de-osama-bin-laden-y-su-hijo-cuentan-su-historia/