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Did You Know Osama Bin Laden Was Found Because His Family Hung Their Clothes Out On The Dry line? Find Out How It Happened
Jul 31, 2021
Osama bin Laden was hiding somewhere which no one aside from his family knew his hideout, but his family's clothing on the washing line gave him away, a new book reveals.
“I don’t understand why people take only one wife,” Osama bin Laden would mostly say, in what was the nearest he ever came to a lighthearted quip. “If you take four wives, you live like a groom.”
But Osama did not approve of how his own father, the wealthy Yemeni builder Mohammed bin Laden, went about the Islamic sanctioned practice of polygamy that allows a man to legally marry four women.
One of 54 children, Osama was born in the year 1957 to 15-year-old Allia Ghanem, one of at least 20 women whom Mohammed, nearly 40 years her senior, had married and divorced during his lifetime. Osama, who was their only child, was 3 years old when Mohammed cast his mother aside. Allia, her son said years later, was “not a wife of the Koran, but a concubine.”
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