History of bin laden company

JEDDAH/RIYADH - In Saudi Arabia, the Bin Ladens are known as the Kennedys of Jeddah for their wealth and tragedies. They built Saudi Arabia's roads, mosques and palaces. Family patriarch Mohammed died in a plane crash, as did the son who succeeded him. Younger son Osama plotted the 9/11 attackson the United States.

Mohammed arrived in Saudi Arabia from Yemen during the 1920s as an impoverished teenager, blind in one eye.

He sought his fortune amongst the pilgrims and hustlers of the Red Sea port of Jeddah.

After founding a small construction firm in 1931, he won the favour of then King Abdulaziz by completing a palace for him within 20 days, according to a biography by former Saudi Binladin Groupexecutive Khalaf Al Sibea. He became Saudi Arabia's go-to builder, earning contracts for the kingdom's most strategically significant projects.

As the conglomerate grew, the Bin Laden family, consisting of some 70 children and dozens of wives How Did The Bin Laden Family Make Their Money ZEKYQ