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nennar
sorry! but i dont believe they have dis-owned him!!!!!!!!
and dont tell me that nothing is going on! america has all the tecnoledgy in the wolrd! they can see through a mountain, they can see through the moon and they cant find him????????????????????????
10:08 PM 8/23/1998
Osama bin Laden's kin disowned him in 1980s
SAN ANTONIO (AP) -- Wealthy Saudi businessman Muhammad bin Laden and his eldest son had disowned bombing suspect Osama bin Laden in the 1980s, say associates of the late Salem bin Laden.
Osama, Salem's younger half-brother, always was considered the "black sheep of the family," said San Antonio lawyer Wayne Fagan, who represented Salem from 1982 until his death in 1988.
"Salem, God bless him, is turning over in his grave. The family, they agonized over (Osama bin Laden) and outcast him from the family since the early '80s," Fagan said.
Charles Schwartz, a Houston lawyer who represented the bin Laden estate in a 1991 lawsuit in Bexar County, said the family "disowned" and "disavowed" Osama after he went to Afghanistan in 1980 to join the fight against the Soviet occupation of that country.
Salem bin Laden came to Texas in 1973 looking for the pilot who had flown for his father, Muhammad, before his death in 1967.
Jerry Auerbach worked for Salem bin Laden for years, first as a pilot in Saudi Arabia and later as an aviation manager for his company in San Antonio, when bin Laden lived in Marble Falls.
Binladen Aviation was incorporated in Austin and was dissolved shortly after Salem's death at the age of 42 in an ultralight crash near Garden Ridge, Texas.
Auerbach said he never met Osama bin Laden, the younger, more radical brother whose activities were targeted this week by U.S. military strikes.
See through the moon and mountains ?? I don't think so. That's silly.