OBL was half Yemeni (Hadhrami father who was born in Yemen) and half Syrian (Nusayri - his mother is from Latakia and still alive).
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He was stripped of his Saudi Arabian citizenship as far back as 1994. Before Al-Qaeda ever managed to commit a single terror attack.
Same KSA government warned Western and non-Western governments from hosting him and openly said that he was a troublemaker.
If we believe the official narrative of 9/11, then 15 of the Saudi Arabian hijackers, almost all of them had Yemeni origins as well. Specifically handpicked by OBL to create a wedge between KSA and USA. Of course this failed.
On the other hand almost every other member of the now large (if not huge) bin Laden family married with locals. Very succesful, wealthy and respected family in KSA. I have met several members of theirs due to mutual family acquaintances.
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The immediate Bin Landen family (OBL is on the photo as well) in Sweden in 1971.
Hardly some religiously strict family as one can see.
OBL's first wife was a Syrian (related to his own mother - most sources claim that both his mother and later Syrian wife were Nusayris). His last wife (eves) were all Yemeni as well. He came to identify with Yemen more than any other country as well later in his life.
A dubious character to put it mildly.
The mujahideen in Afghanistan were morally and religiously not in the wrong (they were aiding local Muslims against an evil oppressor, occupier and aggressor - USSR), later he did some good humanitarian work in Sudan (even Western media reported it as such)
but somewhere down the line he became corrupted and began employing non-Muslim practices.
However neither Al-Qaeda nor OBL invented suicide bombings or terrorism (obvious thing). The first suicide bombings in history in a Muslim context were used by Shia groups like Hezbollah. They were also used by Christian and non-Muslim Palestinians.
And before that the Japanese Kamikaze pilots used a similar tactic long before any Muslims did.
As for the death of OBL, I always found it suspicious even more the location of his for those many years (in Rawalpindi next to one of the largest Pakistani military bases). Clearly someone within the Pakistani state apparatus protected him or looked the other way round. Or just a very strange coincidence. That is if this whole "official story" is even true to begin with.
On the other hand/as a side note, one of OBL's sons (Omar) seems like a great guy.
Wonderful and very long interview he did about his life and family and experiences.
