Lesser-known bin Laden family members The clan disowned the terrorist leader in 1993

Lesser-known bin Laden The death of Osama bin Laden on Sunday has revived interest in the man who had been a scourge of the United States even before he made it on to the FBI’s newly minted "Most Wanted Terrorists" list in 2001. Osama bin Laden was the son of a prosperous family that came from practically nothing to become one of the Saudi royal family's most trusted construction contractors. As Steve Coll recounted in his 2008 book about the bin Laden clan, Osama was always somewhat removed from the wealthy family-- especially after becoming a devout Muslim at the age of 13, when he fell in with an Islamist group run by his Syrian gym teacher. Osama's piety was respected, and even prized--he became an "excluded and essential" figure, Coll writes, in the family until the clan officially disowned him in 1993 at the request of the Saudi government. Virtually since that moment, the bin Laden family has been left to deal with the fallout arising from their now- infamous name. Below, The Lookout provides a round up of other lesser-known bin Laden family members, and their experience dealing with the attention that has come with the terrorist leader's notoriety. The Disapointed Sister-in-Law Carmen Binladen wrote a 2004 book about living as part of the extended bin Laden family. She holds that the wider bin Laden clan still held the al Qaeda mastermind in high regard, even as his political beliefs and actions became extremist. Carmen was married to Osama's brother Yeslem, and ...

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