Omar bin Laden
son of Osama bin Laden (born 1981)
Omar bin Laden (born March 1, 1981) is a Saudi artist, author, cultural ambassador, and businessman. He is the fourth son of Osama bin Laden and his first wife Najwa Ghanhem, who is also Osama's first cousin (see Bin Laden family).
Earlier inaccurate reports described Omar and his brother Abdallah bin Laden as nephews or cousins of Osama bin Laden.
Childhood
Bin Laden was born the grandson of Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden, the founder of one of the wealthiest non-royal families in Saudi Arabia, and the son of Osama bin Laden. Omar bin Laden accompanied his father on his exile to Sudan and then to Afghanistan.
He has between 20 and 26 siblings, including 11 brothers.
He said that he trained in al-Qaeda camps beginning at the age of 14, but after training with al-Qaeda for six years and sharing a house with al-Qaeda's second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri, he left al-Qaeda in 2000 because he did not want to be associated with killing civilians. His father Osama did not object.
In 2010, Omar bin Laden told ABC News that Osama had severely beaten him when he was a child for smiling too widely.
Post-9/11
Bin Laden ran his own company in Jeddah prior to 2006 as a contractor and scrap metal dealer.
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