Osama bin Laden was a Very Good Kid Says His Mother Alia Ghanem

No one in the world can say, Osama bin Laden is a good boy but a mother can. Yes, you have heard it right, for the first time Osama Bin Laden’s mother Alia Ghanem appeared and spoke to media and said her son Osama Bin Laden, was “a very good kid and he loved me so much” as a child.

The interview is conducted by The Guardian in Jeddah in Saudi Arabia and is counted as an important interview because of Bin Laden and both mother and son have shared a very strong bond.

In her mid 70’s Alia Ghanem, who is divorced from her husband Mohammed Bin Laden, the Saudi billionaire, when Osama was only three years old. Her second husband Mohammed al Attas later raised him.

Mohammed Bin Laden, the patriarch of Bin Laden Family had 53 children from about 20 wives and is involved in construction business, which is one of the largest in the Middle East. He died in a plane crash when Osama was only 9 years old.

In the interview, Alia blames outsiders, such as Osama’s Palestinian mentor, Abdullah Azzam, for “brainwashing” her son and involving him in jihad, when he was very young and was fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan in the mid-1980’s. Though Azzam was killed in Pakistan in 1989, the al-Qaida leader continued in his mission and now fighting against the United States.

Mother Alia Ghanem also informs that she got the news of the 9/11 attacks within 48 hours and also got to know that her son Osama was responsible for it. She says she was “shocked and felt ashamed of him. We knew all of us were going to face horrible consequences”. After the incident, the Saudi authorities and a period of time and that rigorously questioned the bin-laden families why were not allowed to leave the country.

Osama’s mother, Ghanem says she is now in regular touch with the three widows of bin Laden who survived the 2011 US Navy SEAL operation that killed Osama Bin Laden in Abbottabad in Pakistan. They are also now living in Saudi Arabia but have no permission to leave the country.

She also reminisces about her last meeting with her son was in South Afghanistan in the city of Kandahar in the year 1999 and after a year al-Qaida attacks two US embassies in Africa which killed more than 200 people.

Alia Ghanem is allowed to speak out for the first time because the Saudi government, which is now led by the 32-year-old Saudi Crown Prince Mohamed bin Salman is said to have allowed the interview to The Guardian.