He seemed to believe that he was qualified to run the family after Salem. He was the only child of a teen-age girl whom his father had married and divorced hastily in the late nineteen-fifties. Mohammed did fully enfranchise all his children as his heirs, and made them eligible for what was, during the nineteen-seventies, a tax-free allowance of several hundred thousand dollars a year.
Bakr had lived in the United States for several years, where he obtained a degree in civil engineering from the University of Miami. Soon after he took over the family and the company, the Saudi government moved to expel Osama and strip him of citizenship, because of his unrelenting criticism of the royal family.
Bakr correspondingly removed him as a shareholder in the family firms. The contracts kept coming. Osama certainly had a few sympathizers among his many brothers and sisters, but the majority of them abhorred his violence and resented the damage he caused them. His killing , in Pakistan, by U. Navy SEAL s, in May, , relieved the family of any further association with his millenarian terrorism.
The Saudi government temporarily suspended contract awards to the bin Ladens. The eerie coincidence of the date of the accident is one of a number of odd resonances in the bin Laden family history; another is the recurrence of traumatic plane crashes. In , M. Bakr and two of his brothers, Saad and Saleh, were among the hundreds of wealthy Saudis detained, many of them at the Ritz-Carlton in Riyadh, where they had to answer allegations of financial crimes.
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Some argued that sea burials should only happen when a person dies at sea; otherwise, the body should be buried in the ground with the head pointed toward Mecca, the birthplace of the Prophet Muhammad. Although the funeral service for bin Laden took place aboard a large Navy aircraft carrier with thousands of crew members, only a small group of people were present.
Fewer than a dozen of the leaders on the Carl Vinson knew that the burial was even happening, according to military emails the Department of Defense released in in response to a Freedom of Information lawsuit. President Barack Obama edits his remarks in the Oval Office prior to making a televised statement detailing the mission against Osama bin Laden, May 1, in Washington, D. When the U. After U. They also embalmed the bodies, which goes against Islamic custom; left them unburied for over a week ; and allowed news outlets to photograph them.
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