Growing Up bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World

"I was not always the wife of Osama bin Laden. Once I was an innocent child dreaming little girl dreams."



Thus begins this powerful story by Najwa bin Laden, who married her cousin Osama bin Laden at the age of fifteen to become his first wife and the mother to eleven of his children, and her son, Omar bin Laden, the fourth-born son of Osama bin Laden. Together, mother and son tell an extraordinarily powerful story of a man hated by so many yet both loved and feared by his family, with spine...