Erin Potts CRI 375 Terrorism Week #2

Zero Dark Thirty: Osama Bin Laden

Professor Wilt January 23, 2013

Osama Bin Laden was born on March 10 1957, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, to construction billionaire Mohammed Awad bin Laden and Mohammed's 10th wife, Syrian Alia Ghanem. Osama was the seventh of 50 children born to Muhammad bin Laden, but the only child from his father's marriage to Alia Ghanem. Osamas father was very hard on his children. Osama barley knew his dad because his parents had divorced when he was young. His mother took him with her when she married her new husband and they had four kids of their own. At the age of 14, Osama was recognized as an outstanding, if somewhat shy, student at Al Thagher. As a result, he received a personal invitation to join a small...