Editing Osama bin Laden (section)

== Personal life ==
{{Main|Personal life of Osama bin Laden}}
At age 17 in 1974, Bin Laden married [[Najwa Ghanem]] at [[Latakia]], Syria;<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-nov-13-mn-3564-story.html |title=Osama Kin Wait and Worry |last=Slackman |first=Michael |date=13 November 2001 |work=Los Angeles Times |access-date=26 May 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090926011904/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/nov/13/news/mn-3564 |archive-date=26 September 2009 }}</ref> but they were later separated and she left Afghanistan on 9 September 2001, 2 days before the 9/11 attacks.<ref>{{cite book|title=Growing Up Bin Laden: Osama's Wife and Son Take Us Inside Their Secret World|author= Najwa bin Laden, [[Omar bin Laden]], Jean Sasson|page=414}}</ref> His other known wives were Khadijah Sharif (married 1983, divorced 1990s); Khairiah Sabar (married 1985); Siham Sabar (married 1987); and Amal al-Sadah (married 2000). Some sources also list a sixth wife, name unknown, whose marriage to Bin Laden was annulled soon after the ceremony.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/05/osama.many.wives |title=Bin Laden's wives – and daughter who would 'kill enemies of Islam' |publisher=CNN Edition: International |last1=Todd |first1=Brian |last2=Lister |first2=Tim |date=5 May 2011 |access-date=5 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110506085949/http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/05/05/osama.many.wives/ |archive-date=6 May 2011 }}</ref> Bin Laden fathered between 20 and 26 children with his wives.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/12/ltm.10.html |title=Osama's Women |publisher=CNN |date=12 March 2002 |access-date=26 May 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110505084546/http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0203/12/ltm.10.html |archive-date=5 May 2011 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=http://terrorism.about.com/od/groupsleader1/p/OsamabinLaden.htm |title=Profile: Osama bin Laden |publisher=About.com |last=Zalman|first=Amy |access-date=26 May 2010 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110707075153/http://terrorism.about.com/od/groupsleader1/p/OsamabinLaden.htm |archive-date=7 July 2011 }}</ref> Many of Bin Laden's children fled to Iran following the September 11 attacks and {{as of|lc=y|2010}}, Iranian authorities reportedly continue to control their movements.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7897555/Osama-bin-Ladens-family-stranded-in-Iran-son-says.html |title=Osama bin Laden's family 'stranded' in Iran, son says|work=The Daily Telegraph|date=19 July 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110312025042/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7897555/Osama-bin-Ladens-family-stranded-in-Iran-son-says.html |archive-date=12 March 2011}}</ref>

[[Nasser al-Bahri]], who was Bin Laden's personal bodyguard from 1997 to 2001, details Bin Laden's personal life in his memoir. He describes him as a frugal man and strict father, who enjoyed taking his large family on shooting trips and picnics in the desert.<ref>{{cite book|last=Al-Bahri|first=Nasser |author-link=Nasser al-Bahri|title=Guarding Bin Laden: My Life in al-Qaeda|date=June 2013 |pages=150–160 |publisher=Thin Man Press |place=London|isbn=978-0-9562473-6-0}}</ref>

Bin Laden's father Mohammed died in 1967 in an airplane crash in Saudi Arabia when his American pilot Jim Harrington<ref>{{cite web |url=https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4581571&page=1 |title=Blood Brothers: Could Osama Have Been Tamed? |publisher=ABC News |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160101093302/https://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=4581571&page=1 |archive-date=1 January 2016}}</ref> misjudged a landing.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,544921,00.html |title=Interview with US Author Steve Coll: 'Osama bin Laden is Planning Something for the US Election' |work=Der Spiegel |access-date=26 January 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110213044611/http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,544921,00.html |archive-date=13 February 2011 |date=2 April 2008 }}</ref> Bin Laden's eldest half-brother, [[Salem bin Laden]], the subsequent head of the Bin Laden family, was killed in 1988 near [[San Antonio]], Texas, in the U.S., when he accidentally flew a plane into power lines.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.woai.com/content/news/newslinks/story/Best-of-the-Web-Osamas-Brother-Died-in-San/fQByftuKL0WrEDALXrJ7EA.cspx|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120113114003/http://www.woai.com/content/news/newslinks/story/Best-of-the-Web-Osamas-Brother-Died-in-San/fQByftuKL0WrEDALXrJ7EA.cspx|url-status=dead|archive-date=13 January 2012 |title=Best of the Web: Osama's Brother Died in San Antonio, Red Velvet Onion Rings-WOAI: San Antonio News |date=13 January 2012 }}</ref>

The FBI described Bin Laden as an adult as tall and thin, between {{convert|6|ft|4|in|m|order=flip|abbr=on}} and {{convert|6|ft|6|in|m|order=flip|abbr=on}} in height and weighing about {{convert|160|lb|kg|order=flip}},<ref>{{Cite web |title=Osama bin Laden |url=https://www.fbi.gov/history/famous-cases/osama-bin-laden |access-date=2024-03-31 |website=www.fbi.gov}}</ref> although author [[Lawrence Wright]], in his book on [[al-Qaeda]], ''[[The Looming Tower]]'', writes that a number of Bin Laden's close friends confirmed that reports of his height were greatly exaggerated, and that he was actually "just over {{convert|6|ft|m}} tall".{{Sfn|Wright|2006|p=83}} After his death, he was measured to be roughly {{convert|6|ft|4|in|m|order=flip|abbr=on}}.<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Schmidle |first1=Nicholas |title=Getting Bin Laden |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/08/08/getting-bin-laden |magazine=[[The New Yorker]] |date=1 August 2011 |access-date=14 September 2021 |archive-date=25 August 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190825094218/https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/08/08/getting-bin-laden |url-status=live }}</ref> Bin Laden had an [[Olive skin|olive complexion]] and was left-handed, usually walking with a cane. He wore a plain white [[keffiyeh]]. At one point, he stopped wearing the traditional Saudi male keffiyeh and instead wore the traditional Yemeni male keffiyeh.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060310055924/http://www.fbi.gov/wanted/terrorists/terbinladen.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=10 March 2006 |title=Most Wanted Terrorist – Usama bin Laden |publisher=FBI |access-date=8 June 2006}}</ref> He was described as soft-spoken and mild-mannered in demeanor.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3570751.stm |title=I met Osama bin Laden |work=BBC News |access-date=15 May 2006 |date=26 March 2004 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060316162620/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3570751.stm |archive-date=16 March 2006}}</ref>