Najwa Ghanem
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Biography
Najwa was born to Ibrahim and Nabeeha in Latakia, United Arab Republic (present-day Syria), and her family was originally from Yemen. She had five siblings.[1] Osama married Najwa in 1974 when she was almost 16 in Latakia.[3] She travelled with him to Sudan and Afghanistan.
According to Abu Jandal, she left Afghanistan before the September 11 attacks and did not return.[2] According to Najwa and her son Omar bin Laden, desiring to return to a normal life, she left Afghanistan sometime between September 7 and 9, 2001.[4] In 2005, Huthaifa Azzam, son of Abdullah Azzam, stated that she was living in Damascus with her son Abdel Rahman.[2] From about April 2012, she moved to Qatar, where seven of her surviving children also continued to reside.[5]
Family
She is the mother of 11 children, including, in order of birth, Abdallah, Abdul Rahman, Saad, Omar, Osman, Mohammed, Fatima, Iman, Ladin, Ruqaiya and Nour.[6] She co-authored Growing Up bin Laden with Omar.[7] Her daughter Iman who was released by Iran in 2010 went to live with her in Syria.[8] According to a close family member in 2011, Najwa's mother died of shock and grief after hearing of her son-in-law's death.[9]
See also
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- ↑ Cathy Scott-Clark & Adrian Levy, The Exile: The Stunning Inside Story of Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda in Flight, New York: Bloomsbury, 2017, pp. 468, 488-489.
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