Steve Coll - The Bin Ladens

Al-Nadwa

Al Qaeda; in Africa; air courier of; birth of; financial crisis of; funding of; myths about; 9/11 and; NSC work on; Osama’s indispensable contributions to; in Philippines; Saudi attacks of; U.S. knowledge of; USS Cole and

Al Qaeda al Askariya (The Military Base)

Al-Quds Al-Arabi, 400

Al-Sahab (The Clouds)

Al-Saud family: assumptions of; Bakr’s relations with; bayah ceremonies and; Bin Laden partnership with; cars of; debauchery of; debts of; expenditures of; factionalism and rivalry in; fears about Western consultants in; as guardians of Islam’s birthplace; hunting of; Muslim Brotherhood and; 9/11 and; in Orlando; Osama’s conflicts with; Osama’s protectiveness toward; pamphlets against; post-9/11 return to Saudi Arabia of; power as conceived by; purity of bloodline of; succession issues in; telephones and; violent revolts against; vulnerability to Islamic revolution of; Yeslam’s relations with

Al-Shamal Bank

Al-Sharif family

Al-Shaykh family

Al-Thaghr Model School; after-school; Islamic study group at; description of; Faisal’s modernization and; as hotbed of debate; Osama’s half-brothers at

Al-Yamamah deal

Al-Yamamah Hotel

Amarco (American Arabian Company)

Ameen, Mike

Ameri, Khalid

America in Motion Corporation

American Airlines Flight

American Express

ammunition

Amr (Faisal’s grandson)

Anas, Abdullah

Angawi, Sami

Anna from Germany

“Antenuptial Agreement Submitting Marriage to Islamic Law,”

anti-Americanism: Al-Kharj and; of Osama

anti-communism, Saudi Arabia and

anti-Semitism; of Osama

anti-Zionism; of Faisal; of Osama

aphrodisiacs

Arab boycott

Arabia; see also specific places Arabian American Oil Company. S ee Aramco Arab-Israeli war (1967)

Arab-Israeli war (1973)

Arab nationalism; Nasser and

Arab revolt (1917)

Arab volunteers, in Afghan war

Arafat plain

Aramco (Arabian American Oil Company); asphalt of; Bin Laden Brothers and; natural gas and; palace projects and; payrolls of; road building of; Saud and; Saudi payments from

Arbusto drilling fund

architecture, Islamic; Wahhabi view of

Armenians

Armitage, Rupert; Bin Laden Telecommunications and; on Copford Glebe; on

Mahrouz; as musician; on Osama

Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.

Arthur Andersen

Ashkar, Joe

Ashmawi, Mohamed

Asir province; Mohamed’s death in; Saudi government projects in; September 11 hijackers from

asphalt, of Aramco

Atef, Mohamed

Attas, Mohamed Al-

Attas, Sheikha Al-; childbirths of; divorce of; Gail Freeman’s meeting of; Jeddah home of

Auerbach, Anthony

Auerbach, Gerald; on Mohamed; in Peshawar flight; Salem’s death and; at Sara’s wedding

Austin, Mo

Austria

automobiles; of Abdulaziz; of Hassan; of Ibrahim; of Mohamed; of Osama; of Salem; Saudi women’s use of; in United States; of Yeslam

Avino, Joaquin

Awda, Salman Al-

Azzam, Abdullah; death of; financial dependence of; Osama compared with; Osama’s disagreements with; as Osama’s mentor; on Saudi funding; Services Office of; wife of

Baathism

Badeeb, Ahmed; Afghan war and; on Osama’s contacts with Saudi government; Osama urged to leave Pakistan by

Badeeb, Saeed

Baer, Robert

BAE Systems

Baghdad

Bahamas

Bahareth, Fatimah Ahmed Mohsen

Bahareth, Mohamed

Bahri, Nasir Al-

Baily, Jan

Baker, James A.

Baker Botts

Balaban, Michael

Bandar Bin Sultan, prince; Clinton’s relations with; September 11 and; Walters’s report and

Banjshiri, Abu Ubaidah Al-

Bank of America

Bank Al-Taqwa

Banna, Hassan Al-

Banque Indosuez

Barger, Tim

Barkley, Mary Martha

Bashir, Omar

Ba Surras

Batarfi, Khaled; on invasion of Kuwait; Osama’s scolding of; on Osama’s travels; on toughness

Bath, Jim; as alleged CIA operative

Bath, Sandra

bayah (fealty)

Bayma, Isabel. S ee Bin Laden, Isabel Bayma Bayma, Regina. S ee Frisaura, Regina Bayma Bayoun, Nur

Bay Point, FL

Bazz, Renee

BBC

Bearden, Milton

Bearman, Peri

Bechtel, Stephen

Bechtel Corporation

Bedouin; battles of; manual labor disdained by; royal campers and; Salem’s relations with; succession and; worship practices of

Beirut; Hard Rock Cafe in; Bell, Alexander Graham

Bell Canada

Bennett, Terry

Bentsen, Lan

Bentsen, Lloyd

Bernstein, Bob

Berra, Yogi

Beverly Hills, CA

Bexar County Medical Examiner

Beydoun, Nour

Biheiri, Soliman

Bilad Al-Saudiyah, Al

bin Abdulaziz, Talal

Binar, Inc. (formerly Binladin International Inc.)

Bin Baz, Sheikh

Binco Investments, N.V.

BIN Corporation

Bin Laden, Abdulaziz (Mohamed’s son)

Bin Laden, Abdulaziz Bin Bakr

Bin Laden, Abdullah (Mohamed’s son); FBI and; 9/11 and; Walters and

Bin Laden, Abdullah (Osama’s son); Fame Advertising and; medical treatment of

Bin Laden, Abdullah Aziz

Bin Laden, Abdullah Bin Awadh (Mohamed’s brother); in Jeddah; Mohamed’s death and; semi-retirement of; Sudan mission of

Bin Laden, Abdullah Bin Awadh (Osama’s nephew)

Bin Laden, Abdul Rahman

Bin Laden, Aboud

Bin Laden, Ahmed (nineteenth-century relative)

Bin Laden, Ahmed Mohamed (Osama’s stepbrother)

Bin Laden, Ali (Mohamed’s son); business training of; father’s death and; Salem’s death and; Salem’s struggles with; separation from family company by

Bin Laden, Ali (nineteenth-century relative); Bin Laden, Ali (Osama’s son)

Bin Laden, Awadh Aboud; death threat against; wife of

Bin Laden, Aysha

Bin Laden, Bakr; Al-Saud relations with; appearance of; automobiles of; Baby Elephant as guardian of; in Bin Laden Brothers; Caroline’s second marriage and; corporate reorganization of; as devout Muslim; divorces of; education of; as family leader; as father; FBI and; flying of; Ghalib’s relationship with; as health nut; inheritance issues cleaned up by; Iridium and; lawsuits against; majlis of; marriages of; Medina and Mecca projects and; in New York; 9/11 and; offshore companies and; Osama’s expulsion from business and; Osama’s relationship with; Osama’s Saudi departure and; in Pakistan; political interests of; Prince Charles’s relationship with; Riyadh car bombing and; Salem’s death and; in Saudi Bin Laden Group; as sheikh; university donations by; U.S. embassy bombings and; Yeslam’s tensions with

Bin Laden, Carmen; divorce of; Haifa’s friendship with; on Mahrouz’s family; on Mohamed’s wives; on Osama; on Osama’s wife and children; suicide threats of

Bin Laden, Caroline Carey (Carrie); conversion of; second marriage of

Bin Laden, Fawzia

Bin Laden, Firas

Bin Laden, Fowziyah

Bin Laden, Ghalib; Al-Taqwa Bank and; in Bin Laden Brothers; education of; flying of; Osama’s divested shares assigned to; Peshawar visited by; Salem’s death and; wife of

Bin Laden, Haider

Bin Laden, Haifa Nabulsi; Bin Laden, Hamzah

Bin Laden, Hassan; FBI and; international portfolio of

Bin Laden, Hoda

Bin Laden, Huda

Bin Laden, Ibrahim; audit of; custody struggle of; devoutness of; divorce of; education of; financial ignorance claimed by; inheritance of; marriage of; 9/11 and; prenuptial contract of

Bin Laden, Iman

Bin Laden, Isabel Bayma

Bin Laden, Issa

Bin Laden, Khaled

Bin Laden, Khalid (Mohamed’s son)

Bin Laden, Khalid (Osama’s son)

Bin Laden, Khalifa

Bin Laden, Khalil; education of; legal entanglements of; marriage of 9/11 and; real estate investments of