Osama bin Laden Trivia

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DOB
10 March 1957, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Height
6' 4 1/2"

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Osama bin Laden

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He was allegedly involved in the suicide bombings of the USS Cole in Yemen, which killed 17 US sailors (October 12, 2000).
He is missing some of his toes. He sustained this injury during the Soviet-Afghan War.
Has his look-alike puppet in the French show "Guignols de l'info, Les" (1988).
His personal fortune is estimated at over $300 million dollars. It was inherited by his family's construction business in Saudi Arabia.
Is a Kidney patient and was on dialysis until the start of US campaign in Afghanistan.
Until 2004, never claimed responsibility for the September 11th attacks, but praised them instead. In 2004 he admitted to having plotted the attacks since 1982.
The U.S. State Department has offered a reward of up to $25,000,000 for information that leads directly to his capture. On July 14, 2007 that reward was increased to $50,000,00.00. An additional $2 million has been offered through a program developed and funded by the Airline Pilots Association and the Air Transport Association.
Due to his illness he walks with a cane.
Born to a Yemeni father who lived in Saudi Arabia, and a Syrian mother.
Former sister-in-law, Swiss-Iranian Carmen Bin Ladin, published "The Veiled Kingdom" (2004) and "Inside the Kingdom" (2005) about her experiences in Saudi-Arabian society. Having married into the bin Laden family in 1974, she returned to her native Switzerland in 1985 in order to spare her daughters the restrictive and oppressive practices she'd experienced as a female in Saudi culture.