On September 13, 2001, the ruins of the Twin Towers in New York were drenched in blood, and Americans recovered from the initial shock, and the air of the United States was filled with emotions of grief and revenge.
On this day, US Secretary of State Colin Powell announced that bin Laden was the prime suspect in the terrorist attack. In the years that followed, bin Laden was often the center of news around the world, and he and his large bin Laden family attracted the world's attention, especially the mysterious women under the black veil.
Osama bin Laden, born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in the spring of 1957, is the 17th child of Awad bin Laden, founder of the Saudi construction conglomerate bin Laden.
As Saudi law allows a Muslim man to marry four wives, Awad, the country's construction giant, has many "fourth wives" in addition to his first three wives, and Alia is one of them.
Although it is difficult for ordinary people to support four wives, Awad, with his family's deep financial resources, has made his family a monopoly in many industries such as construction, railway, and finance in Saudi Arabia, and it is conservatively estimated that his family's assets are as high as 5 billion US dollars.
Awad's life was filled with numerous women, he married 22 formal wives, but also had countless lovers. He searched all over the Middle East for beautiful women, who were just the objects of his pastime.
Awad is on a business trip all year round, so his children can only see him a year.
Three or four times. On major Muslim festivals, he would get together with his children, kiss them, and each child would receive a gold coin.
However, apart from these, Awad and his children do not seem to have any other communication. Bin Laden was not close to his father, but he lived in a gorgeous estate with Awad's 22 wives and 54 children, each with their own children to take care of.
In this extended family, the status of children depends on their mothers, and young children can only rely on their own mothers.
The women around Awad are like stars, even if it is Alia, no matter how beautiful she is, there are times when she gets tired of looking at it. After a brief period of passion, Awad forgot her in the corner of his memory.
Because she is not a native of Saudi Arabia, Alia has always had a low status in the bin Laden family, and is often bullied by Awad's other wives. Bin Laden was not favored by his father, and his mother could not fully protect him, so whenever there was injustice, Alia could only let him swallow his anger.
Growing up in such an environment, bin Laden was an introvert and became distorted and paranoid, with a gloomy trait that matched his age, and he often studied Muslim religious texts in solitude.
Since he was six months old, bin Laden has lived with his family in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia's second-largest city, which is the gateway to the Muslim holy city of Mecca. Osama bin Laden attended religious schools in primary and secondary school, he could memorize many passages from the Qur'an, and he was fluent in English.
In 1968, his father, Awad, died in a plane crash, and soon after, his mother, Alia, remarried. Although the bin Laden family did not allow her to take their son with her, Alia entrusted the 11-year-old bin Laden to Khalifa, another wife of Awad, before leaving.
Khalifa and Alia are like sisters, she watched bin Laden be born and raised, so she loved bin Laden as much as a mother did her own son. Compared to the love of the two mothers, bin Laden received very little paternal love, but even so, after his father's death, bin Laden still inherited 3 as one of Awad's 25 sons$500 million legacy.
Growing up, bin Laden was no longer a bullying boy, his learning and leadership skills emerged, and his perspectives and perceptions were unique and unique.
As a Muslim, he has a deep belief in Islam and firmly believes that Islam is a whole, that all Islamic countries belong to the territory of Allah, and that any violation of Islamic countries means violation of Allah.
In 1979, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan, which was an Islamic country, and bin Laden instinctively wanted to help the Afghans resist the Soviet Union. He went to Afghanistan with a large amount of ** and money, joined the local partisans, personally went into battle to fight with his Muslim brothers.
During this period, he always missed his two mothers in Saudi Arabia, kept in touch with them and cared about their physical condition. However, after the events of 911, bin Laden cut ties with them.
After Alia remarried, she went into seclusion, and Khalifa publicly condemned bin Laden's terrorist acts, saying that he still loved bin Laden but did not agree with what he did.
Bin Laden had 5 wives, his first being his cousin. His cousin was a very common choice of wife in the Middle East, and it was believed that it would increase kinship.
In 1974, 17-year-old bin Laden married his 14-year-old cousin, Nayiva. The young couple is full of passion and ignorance in their lives. Osama bin Laden was an innocent teenager during this period, while Naeva was his true love, his only wife, and the cinnabar mole in his heart.
bin Laden had a total of 20 children, of which Naeva gave birth to 11, which shows that their relationship is very deep.
Osama bin Laden was once "furious" for Naeva, and in 1978, his wife took their ailing eldest son to the United States**. On the plane, passengers saw Naeva, dressed in a black robe and veiled, and they pointed at her, and some men even took out their cameras to take pictures of her.
In bin Laden's view, this was undoubtedly an insult to his wife, who shouted at them and escorted her into the first-class cabin. Osama bin Laden was haunted by the incident, and he later told friends that the "nightmarish" experience had made him disgusted with the United States.
Despite being pampered, Nayiwa, like most Saudi women, has a severely restricted life and can't go out at will. It wasn't until after 911 that bin Laden was hunted down, and for the safety of Naeva and the children, he allowed her to go out with them.
In 2011, when bin Laden was killed, his second wife, Herticher, and children had been safely placed abroad, missing that bloody and horrific moment.
Heticher comes from the Sharif family in Saudi Arabia and is a descendant of the Islamic prophet Muhammad. She received a good education, had free access until she married bin Laden, and was a teacher at a women's college in Saudi Arabia.
However, after marrying bin Laden, Herticher was forced to quit her job and couldn't go out at will, which made her feel uncomfortable. She and her husband often get into arguments due to personality differences.
Hetticher loved freedom, and she couldn't stand the restraints, while bin Laden lived a repressive life. Saudi Arabia has one of the hottest climates in the world, with an average annual temperature of around 29 degrees Celsius and highs of 55 degrees Celsius.
However, bin Laden's home did not have any modern appliances, such as air conditioners or fans, not even refrigerators. He forbade the use of these appliances in his home, believing that high temperatures could temper people's will.
And the bin Laden children don't have any toys because they need to hone their willpower from an early age. All this was unbearable for Herticher and she decided to divorce. Probably because Herticher came from a large family, bin Laden respected her so much that he offered to admit his mistake to her and offered to divorce her.
The handsome man with a height of 190 centimeters behaved very humbly in front of her, and Hetticher was impressed by his sincerity, and in the end they did not separate.
Feeling lonely with Heticher cold and Naeva busy, bin Laden asked Naeva to help him choose a third wife. Naeva chooses Hariya, a sweet and gentle teacher at a school for the deaf, to have a grand wedding for him and Hariya.
A year later, Hariyah gave birth to a boy, whom bin Laden named Hamza, who later became known as the "Crown Prince of Terror" and inherited his father's business as the new leader of al-Qaeda.
Osama bin Laden's fourth wife, Siham, was both his lover and his comrade-in-arms. She has a Ph.D. and drafted bin Laden's speeches, and they often discussed al-Qaeda's work together.
In 1999, bin Laden, 42, married Amar, a 17-year-old Yemeni girl. The young and beautiful Amal managed to win bin Laden's heart, and he even wanted to spend time with her every night.
This caused the displeasure of his other four wives, but bin Laden did not care. Amar gave birth to twins for bin Laden, and she was by his side almost always during the last 12 years of bin Laden's life.
After bin Laden's death, Al Jazeera revealed that he was sleeping in the same bed with Ammar before he was killed. When she spotted the American soldiers, she rushed to them to protect bin Laden, and the soldiers shot her in the left leg, a true story of "Beauty Saves Heroes".
When U.S. forces killed bin Laden, the three wives who accompanied her, Hariyah, Siham, and Amal, were detained for 45 days on charges of illegal entry by Pakistan**.
They were suspicious of each other in prison, accusing each other of betraying bin Laden. In a state of great grief and anger, the usually gentle Hariyah went so far as to fight with Ammar, until when the jailer separated them, both women were covered with blood on their faces.
Hariyah still loudly denounces Amal as a spy for the U.S. military, while Amal cries about how she rescued her husband, pointing to her leg injury. Siham, who was watching from the sidelines, whispered to comfort Hariyah, apparently on Harrieh's side.
In bin Laden's home in Pakistan, there has been a constant struggle within the family. He pampered young Amal so much that Hariyah and Siham became jealous, and their wives quarreled with their 10 children all day long.
For four years after 911, bin Laden had taken refuge in the solitude of the Middle East, but now he was troubled by the "bustle" of family life and had to reconcile the conflicts between his three wives.
American soldiers are said to have obtained a map of bin Laden's home and the style of his clothing for the day, leading to a fight between his wives in prison. However, there is still no conclusive evidence of who betrayed bin Laden.
After bin Laden's death, his wife and children chose to respect his suicide note, stick to Saudi Arabia, and accompany their children to grow up healthily. The most frequent appearances in his family are his brother's wife Carmen and niece Wafah.
Originally from the Western world, Carmen was accustomed to a free-spirited life, but in 1973 she fell in love with Islam in the United States, and in 1976 she followed him back to Saudi Arabia to live with him.
In the bin Laden family in Saudi Arabia, there are strict norms for women. Carmen couldn't come and go at will, let alone go out to work, which made her feel constrained. After 911, Carmen left Saudi Arabia with her daughter, and in 2003 she published her memoir, In the Kingdom of Opacity, detailing her life in Saudi Arabia.
According to her memoirs, Carmen only met bin Laden three times, each time by accident. At one point, Carmen heard a knock on the door and opened it to find that it was bin Laden, but as soon as bin Laden saw her, he turned and left.
Afterwards, Islam told her that it was because she was not wearing a veil at the time. In Muslim culture, men are not allowed to look directly at women other than their mothers, wives, and daughters, even their younger sisters-in-law.
Compared to Carmen, who published only one book, bin Laden's niece, Vafah, is more high-profile. After graduating from college, Wafah dreamed of becoming a Hollywood star.
She had worked with an American film and television company on a personal life reality show, but the response was mediocre. Vafah didn't give up, and with the height and appearance of the bin Laden family, she walked the runway.
Her bewitching curves have attracted countless eyeballs and won recognition. After becoming famous, Wafah published an article in the famous American magazine "GO", titled "Becoming the best bin Laden is easier said than done".
In this article, she expressed in detail the complex mentality of being in the ** vortex, "Because of my uncle, all Westerners hate me; And because I chose American values, all Saudis hate me too. ”
Most of the women of the bin Laden family, who lived a wealthy but closed life in Saudi Arabia, were not greatly affected by bin Laden's death, except for the Carmen mother and daughter.