Yeslam bin Ladin

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Yeslam bin Ladin (exact name in Saudi Arabia "Binladin" and in US "Ben Laden") (October 19, 1950 : 56 years old) (Arabic: يسلم بن لادن‎) is the half-brother of Al-Qaeda terrorist group leader Osama bin Laden. He has 54 half brothers and half sisters, including 2 younger brothers (Ibrahim and Khalil) and a younger sister (Fawzia) by the same mother as him. They live in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His father died when he was 18 years old. He is Saudi with Persian (his mother) and Yemeni (his father) heritage. His fortune was estimed at 300 000 000 of Swiss francs.

After attending high school in Beirut, Lebanon, Bin Ladin studied economics at Göteborg University, Sweden, and business administration at UCLA. He speaks Arabic, English, French and Persian. He is a moderate Sunni Muslim. He has lived in Switzerland since the mid-1980s. On February 25th, 2005, he was granted permission by the Swiss government to use the name bin Ladin to brand products for his business including perfume for men and woman dubbed "Yeslam", handbags and accessories under the name "The World of Yeslam". Shops opened in Geneva, Jeddah, Riyadh and Damman (Saudi Arabia). He has pilot's driver forming as his father and some of his brothers. He possesses his private jet : a Learjet.

But it should be noted that Yeslam Bin Laden who works mainly in Switzerland also has a western lifestyle. After his divorce he has a young girlfriend, a lawyer (that is not a Muslim).

He has three daughters, Wafah Dufour (31 years old), Najia (29 years old), and Noor (19 years old), and has reportedly not spoken to them for more than ten years because of their western customs. As of January 2006, he is divorcing Carmen bin Ladin born Carmen Dufour, 54 years old, a Swiss (father: Dufour) /Persian (mother: Mirdoht-Sheybani) author of 'Inside the Kingdom', a controversial expose, after 15 years. He became a Swiss citizen (Geneva) several months before the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks in April 2001.