Posted on 08/03/2018 2:37:14 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
On the corner couch of a spacious room, a woman wearing a brightly patterned robe sits expectantly. The red hijab that covers her hair is reflected in a glass-fronted cabinet; inside, a framed photograph of her firstborn son takes pride of place between family heirlooms and valuables.
A smiling, bearded figure wearing a military jacket, he features in photographs around the room: propped against the wall at her feet, resting on a mantlepiece. A supper of Saudi meze and a lemon cheesecake has been spread out on a large wooden dining table.
Alia Ghanem is Osama bin Laden’s mother, and she commands the attention of everyone in the room. On chairs nearby sit two of her surviving sons, Ahmad and Hassan, and her second husband, Mohammed al-Attas, the man who raised all three brothers.
Everyone in the family has their own story to tell about the man linked to the rise of global terrorism; but it is Ghanem who holds court today, describing a man who is, to her, still a beloved son who somehow lost his way.
“My life was very difficult because he was so far away from me,” she says, speaking confidently. “He was a very good kid and he loved me so much.” Now in her mid-70s and in variable health, Ghanem points at al-Attas – a lean, fit man dressed, like his two sons, in an immaculately pressed white thobe, a gown worn by men across the Arabian peninsula. “He raised Osama from the age of three. He was a good man, and he was good to Osama.”
The family have gathered in a corner of the mansion they now share in Jeddah, the Saudi Arabian city that has been home to the Bin Laden clan for generations.
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Palate cleanser courtesy of Toby Keith - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruNrdmjcNTc
Hitler was a momma’s boy, too.
He was a good boy - loved his mama
Loved Mohammad and killing Americans too...
The moronic mom of another moronic DEAD mohammedan.
Ed Gein was a Mamma’s Boy too.
Did I write Mamma???
Osama’s Greatest Hits, available at Tower Records...
All I could think about while reading this sad story was “Momma Tried” by Merle Haggard...
Too bad we can’t bring him back and kill him again.
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