Three family members of bin Laden killed in a crash – The Progress

         

The private jet belonging to bin Laden’s family ‘crashed on a site selling vehicles to auction. Sky News Capture

Three members of the family of Osama bin Laden were killed in the crash of a private jet Friday afternoon in England, about sixty kilometers south-west London.

The device would land on Blackbushe Airport when it crashed into the enclosure a website selling vehicles to auction for some reason still unknown. The plane of ten million euros, Embraer Phenom 300, belonged to Salem Aviation, a company of the bin Laden family

Three of the four victims were part of this rich Saudi family. In-laws mother of Osama bin Laden, Rajaa Hashim, his half-sister Sana Ben Laden and his brother Zuhair Hashim. The Jordanian camera driver was also killed. The private jet that had taken off from Milan-Malpensa Airport, Italy, caught fire after the crash.

“The Mother of orphans”

The half-sister the former leader of al-Qaida, who was killed by US commandos in May 2011 in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia was known as the “Mother of orphans,” which earned him high esteem in Arab countries. Sana Ben Laden was a philanthropist who funded orphanages in the country.

The Saudi Ambassador to the United Kingdom, Prince Mohammed bin Nawaf Al Saud has sent his condolences to the bin Laden family in a message posted on the Twitter account of the embassy.

A wealthy family

The family of Osama bin Laden, who denied the co-founder of Al Qaeda in 1994 is extensive and wealthy. Osama’s father, Mohammed bin Laden, had 22 wives and 54 children, but never more than four wives at a time, as permitted by the Koran. Osama was his 17 th child.

Nicknamed “Rockefeller” of the Middle East and from Yemen, Mohammed bin Laden had built a financial empire and real estate five billion dollars.

For simple illiterate mason origin, the father of Osama became the chief engineer responsible for the construction of roads for King Faisal, at a time when the black gold and petrodollars flowed.

The fortune of the bin Laden family including dates back to 1973 when the Saudi monarch had granted the family company, Saudi Bin Ladin became the Group (SBG), a of the largest sites of all time, that of reconstruction of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina, a project 17 billion.

The father of Osama bin Laden himself had died in the crash of a small commuter plane, a Beechcraft, which had crashed on landing in south-western Saudi Arabia, in September 1967. He went there to marry a 23 th wife. In 1988, Salem bin Laden, the half brother of Osama, had also been killed in a plane crash in San Antonio, Texas.

Luc Chaillot