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EX500rider

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11. "Usama Ben Laden was a member of the Saudi royal family." No

Reply to saidsimplesimon (Reply #6)

Fri Jul 31, 2015, 01:49 PM

Jul 2015

His father Mohammed bin Awad bin Laden was born in Yemen, and moved to Saudi. In 1930, he started his own construction business and after coming to the attention of Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud, first monarch of Saudi Arabia, he eventually achieved such success that his family became known as "the wealthiest non-royal family in the kingdom."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammed_bin_Awad_bin_Laden

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