Miscellaneous

What happened to the wives of Osama bin Laden?

What happened to the wives of Osama bin Laden?

Overall, his family did not fare well. Three sons were killed by the United States, and one daughter died in childbirth while on the run. The three wives with him when he was killed were imprisoned in Pakistan for a year after his death, and one wife and seven children were held in detention in Iran for a decade.

Which President caught Osama?

Operation Neptune Spear
United States al-Qaeda
Commanders and leaders
Barack Obama William H. McRaven Osama bin Laden † Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti †
Strength

How many wives did Osama have?

five wives
Bin Laden, who was one of 55 children himself, had five wives and two dozen children. At the time of his death in 2011, a result of a Navy SEAL operation in Pakistan, bin Laden’s wives ranged in age from 28 to 62 and he had kids ranging in ages from three to 35.

Why did Osama bin Laden have so many wives?

According to Wisal al Turabi, bin Laden married them because they were “spinsters”, who “were going to go without marrying in this world. So he married them for the Word of God”. His known wives were: Najwa Ghanhem (born 1960), a Syrian, also known as Umm Abdullah (mother of Abdullah).

Was Osama bin Laden a U.S. citizen?

Bin Laden was on the American Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) lists of Ten Most Wanted Fugitives and Most Wanted Terrorists for his involvement in the 1998 US embassy bombings….

Osama bin Laden
Citizenship Saudi Arabian (1957–1994)
Height 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)

How old was bin Laden at death?

54 years (1957–2011)Osama bin Laden / Age at death

How did U.S. find out where bin Laden was hiding?

American intelligence officials discovered the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden by tracking one of his couriers. Information was collected from Guantánamo Bay detainees, who gave intelligence officers the courier’s pseudonym as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, and said that he was a protégé of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.